Honeybee Removal Services

An average bee can only produce about 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey in its life time.

A colony of bees contains between 20,000-60,000 bees and one queen

To create one pound of honey, bees must gather nectar from 2 million flowers. 

A queen can lay between 1000-2000 eggs a day.

There are two main types of removals performed by Currin Pest Control: Structural Removal and Swarm Removals

During the warmer months, honeybees are working hard to build the hive's numbers for the nectar flow. Depending on the size of the void or cavity the bees occupy determines a lot to the overall strength of the hive. Once the void has reached close to capacity for brood, honey, and pollen, the hive workers begin preparation of a swarm. A bee swarm is where the old queen and half of the workers abscond from the original hive in search for a new location. Once the cue is triggered for a swarm, the colony splits and the group of bees and the old queen come to rest away from the original hive and send scouts out to search for a new location to occupy. This can be as small as a baseball bunch of bees to as large as small beach balls. During this state, swarms are normally non-aggressive unless provoked. This is especially true for Africanized bees (killer bees). If left alone, the bees tend to move along within 2-3 days. If the honeybees are in need of relocation immediately, please call as soon as possible.

 As part of Currin Pest Control's work with local and commercial beekeepers, we strive to rehome as many swarms as possible to help ensure that the bee population grows for the benefit of all. Having been a beekeeper for more than ten years, Mike and his family believe that honey bees play an extremely important role in the future of the mankind. During the swarm season, you can always rely on us for honey bee hive removal and bee swarm removal when needed.  

Honey bee structural removals are more complex than that of swarm removals. Once the bees have chosen a structure to move into, all bees fly to the new location and get started construction on the new honey comb. Eggs can be laid within just a few hours of moving into a new location. To help understand how extensive a hive removal will be, Currin Pest Control uses thermal images to show clients the extent of the hive before any work is done to extract the hive. Every attempt to remove and rehome the bees alive is preferred. However, with Africanized bees in the area, safety of our employees and our neighbors will be taken into consideration concerning a live removal of an aggressive colony. Currin Pest Control will do everything it can to minimize damages of a structural removal and attempt to secure any openings left until the client can have a contractor perform the proper repairs.