Bee Swarm Removal in Port St. Lucie, Stuart & Nearby
A swarm is a colony between homes. Call while it's still hanging, because the next home could be your wall.
A bee swarm is a ball of bees, often thousands, resting on a branch, fence, eave, mailbox or car while scouts shop for a new home. Most swarms are gentle, and collecting one is the fastest, least expensive bee job there is. The catch is timing: once they move into a structure, it becomes a hive removal.
What a Swarm Is, and Why It Showed Up
Swarming is how honey bee colonies reproduce. The old queen leaves with a large share of the workers, and they hang in a cluster for a few hours to a couple of days while scouts search for a new home. On the Treasure Coast the heaviest swarming runs from late February into May, with another push in early fall when Brazilian pepper blooms.
Swarms are gorged on honey and have no brood or comb to protect, which is why they're usually gentle. That changes quickly once they've picked a spot and started building.
What to Do Until We Arrive
- Keep people and pets back. Calm isn't the same as harmless.
- Don't spray it, hose it or throw anything at it. A scattered swarm is harder to collect and more likely to end up in your soffit.
- Take a photo and note what it's hanging on and how high.
- Watch whether bees are going into something nearby. If so, it's no longer just a swarm.
Text the photo to 772-444-8442 and we'll tell you how soon we can be there.
Swarm hanging in your yard right now?Call now or text a photo for a quick price.
Common Swarm Spots on the Treasure Coast
We collect swarms from citrus and oak limbs in Port St. Lucie backyards, from chain-link fences along the canals, from boat trailers in Port Salerno driveways, from the eaves of Stuart bungalows, from light poles in Fort Pierce parking lots and from palm fronds just about everywhere. If it's hanging, we can usually get it.
How We Collect a Swarm
- Size it up. Height, surface and bee temperament decide the method.
- Shake or brush into a box. Most swarms drop cleanly into a hive box with one firm shake.
- Vacuum the stragglers. A gentle bee vacuum collects bees that don't go in on their own.
- Wait for the queen. Once she's in the box, the rest of the bees follow her in.
- Relocate. We drive the boxed swarm to an apiary, where it starts building comb on frames.
Cost
Swarm collection is the lowest-cost service we offer, because there's no comb to remove and nothing to repair. Height and access, like a swarm at the top of a tall pine, can add to it. For typical ranges across every job type, see what bee removal costs on the Treasure Coast.
Bee Swarm Removal Near You
Available throughout St. Lucie County and Martin County, including:
Questions About Bee Swarm Removal
Usually within a few hours to two days. The question is where it goes. If your soffit, wall or shed is the best cavity nearby, that's where it will move.
Swarms are generally docile, but thousands of bees still deserve respect, and in South Florida any colony could be Africanized. Keep your distance and let us handle it.
Some yards sit near a feral colony that swarms every year, or have a spot that smells like a previous nest. We can look for a source colony and seal likely cavities.
Please don't. The bees will scatter and some may come with you. A swarm on a vehicle is usually a quick pickup.
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