Phoenix Bee Removal

Guaranteed Professional Service at a Fair Price

There are a number of reasons honey bees may find the need to swarm. In Arizona, feral honey bees can swarm multiple times a year during the spring and summer months.

 

 

Honeybees detect the need to swarm and start a new colony for one or more of the following reasons:

  • The colony is too congested in their current hive. There is not enough room for the queen to lay more eggs and/or for the worker bees to store more honey and pollen in the honeycomb.
  • The queen has become weak with age, so she is not laying enough eggs or giving off enough pheromone scent to properly control the colony. This condition may also trigger superseding, which does not usually result in swarming.
  • The queen is missing.
  • Prolonged periods of bad weather (rainfall, etc.) restrict the bees to the hive and cause congestion and lack of foraging activity.
  • The queen is genetically defective, which can inactivate nurse bees, cause a higher genetic tendency to swarm, lower queen pheromone production, or cause poor egg-laying activity or sporadic egg-laying, resulting in an uneven distribution of honeybee castes. This condition may also trigger supersedure, which does not usually result in swarming.
  • Poor ventilation, resulting in higher-than-normal moisture levels or temperatures inside the hive
  • Lack of food or water supply.
  • Disease or pest infestation; these conditions may also trigger superseding, which does not usually result in swarming.
$80 Bee Removal

$120 Flat Rate Bee Removal

The flat rate covers us coming out and getting rid of any single bee colony on your property to prevent further damage and also prevent the bees from growing in numbers and potentially having an unintentional bee attack.

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Africanized Bee Control

Africanized Bee Removal

Africanized Bee Removal has more than tripled in the last decade in the Phoenix Metro Area.

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Honeycomb Removal

Honeycomb Removal

We offer all stages of honeycomb extraction from demo of the infested area to all the honeycomb clean out and pheromone masking and the repair and sealing.

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Swarm Info

Swarm Information

A bee swarm in a tree or bush will normally leave within 72 hours, sometimes in as little as a couple of hours.

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