Kissimmee Bee Swarm in a Boat

Kissimmee Bee Swarm in a boat!

Kissimmee Bee Swarm in a Boat

The swarm alighted in the boat's battery box when it was at a St. Cloud trailer repair facility. Both St. Cloud & Kissimmee are home to vibrant populations of Africanized Honey Bees (AHB), which swarms at a much higher rate than it's European cousins, the European Honey Bee.

Swarms will land and try to setup a new colony just about anywhere, and this void in a battery box is just right for the budding colony to start. If you look closely, you can see bees flying above the opened lid of the box. We were able to perform a live removal of the swarm and hive it in one of our boxes.

If you have a Kissimee Bee Swarm, call us at 1-800-343-5317 for expert, licensed removals.

Richard Martyniak, M.Sc., Entomologist ALLFloridaBeeRemoval

Winter Park Ground Bees: I have hundreds of bees flying close to the ground!

Spring is the time of year for bees and wasps to really crank up their activity, and mating is almost first on the agenda!  One of the earliest bees we start getting calls for during early spring are a group of bees we call 'ground bees'. These are several groups of bees that build nests in the ground, and are largely non-social, meaning each female digs her own burrow, provisions cells inside with pollen and nectar, and lays eggs within. The eggs hatch, the larvae eat the stored food, and develop into adults, all underground several feet, and emerge sometime the following year, or maybe in the fall

Ground Bee nest opening

Often, we will find hundreds of these burrows, while they look similar to ant mounds, these have a larger hole, and not bee activity.

These are really cool bees, and I usually can lay down amongst the hundreds that are flying at grass-top level, photographing at will, with nary a sting. So, control of these is often not needed, however, we do have treatment protocols established for folks who are sting sensitive, or for high traffic public areas where the sting risk is a concern.

Feel free to call us if you'd like more information about these wonderful pollinators.

Richard Martyniak M.Sc., Entomologist
ALLFloridaBeeRemoval.com 1-800-343-5317

Gainesville Bees in a wall - a "Chert" Wall !

Here's a cool one -- Gainesville has about 150 historic homes that were built with the locally mined limestone, called "Chert", which makes for a very distinct architectural style. It also can make for a very bee-friendly wall as there are many small openings that bees can gain entrance to the wall void that exists behind the rock.

Bees in Chert limestone wall

We were called to this bee infestation after the owner was stung.. after he had tried to use gasoline and wasp spray  to kill the bee colony--- a method that has bad news all over it.

Please call us if you encounter such a bee colony, we were able to treat this colony in a manner that will allow the client to open the wall and remove the treated colony in just a few days...and save him some money in the process. And, ,more importantly, remove the sting risk to him and his neighbors. That's peace of mind!

ALLFloridaBeeRemoval.com  1-800-343-5317
Richard Martyniak, M.Sc., Entomologist

Orlando Honey Bee Swarm

This week, we have been getting loads of Bee Swarm calls in the Greater Orlando Area. It's always the same, late winter is very slow for us, but we try to prepare for this phenonemon we call "Swarm Season", which can start any day from Mid-February thru Early April. Bees will start swarming sometime during this period, and once they do, it's Game ON!, with us recieving hundreds of calls a day!

Orlando bee swarm

A colony of honey bees can be likened to an organism, and the prime directive of organisms is to reproduce--and that is what a swarm is!! Bee colony reproduction! An existing colony sends out maybe 20,000 workers, drones and the queen, to go find a new place to build a colony and thrive.


Usually, but not always, these swarms are relatively docile, and are transitory, meaning they will leave in a few hours. Please, don't provoke them into a stinging incident, by self treating yourself. Give us a call, and we'll help you determine if you should have us remove them. In most cases, you won't have to do a thing, but wave as they leave!


But in other cases, it's a good idea to have us remove the swarm, as we can eliminate the sting risk for you and your family, pets or customers. Please, contact us anytime at 1-800-343-5317 or http://ALLFloridaBeeRemoval.com
Richard Martyniak, M.Sc., Entomologist

Clermont External Honey Bee Nest

This time of year, we get loads of calls for these kind of bee nests: External comb built right in or under tree branches:

Here's what you may not realize. The probability is High that these are Africanized Honey Bees (AHB), aka "Killer Bees", and not the desired European Honey Bees that we keep in our white boxes. However, it's possible to do a live relocation to our quarantine apiary, but we have to consider the sting risk before attempting such removals.

Please, do not attempt to perform removals on these type nests as these bees can turn very mean, once one tries to attempt removal or spraying.

Richard Martyniak, M.Sc., Entomologist
1-800-343-5317
http://ALLFloridaBeeRemoval.com

Orlando Bee Nest Removal from a wall

This client had a full-blown honey bee colony living inside a wall, so he tried to spray SIX cans of wasp/hornet spray, and only succeeded in making 50,000 bees very, very MAD!!

Orlando Bee Hive in Wall

This picture shows how large bee comb can bee, even within walls. We are now seeing many very mean honey bees that are probably Africanized (Killer Bees) in the Orlando Area.

Call us at 1-800-343-5317 for proper honey bee treatment and removal in the state of Florida.

Richard Martyniak, M.Sc., Entomologist
ALLFloridaBeeRemoval.com

Gainesville Honey Bee Swarm

Swarm season has started! We removed this small swarm of bees from a Gainesville Apartment complex this evening.