Honey bees are important pollinators who face enough threats without adding unnecessary exterminations to the list.
What to expect: A quick response (typically same-day) to collect the swarm before they establish a permanent home. Depends on availability.
Pricing: Typically free, but complex locations may require a fee.
Serving locations in northeastern Utah (Vernal, Roosevelt, Jensen, and beyond)
What to expect: A thorough assessment, careful removal of the entire colony including honey and comb, and relocation to a suitable new home. Depends on availability.
Pricing: Typically free, but removals that involve carpentry work to access the colony may incur a cost.
Serving locations in northeastern Utah (Vernal, Roosevelt, Jensen, and beyond)
A swarm is a large clump of bees that are in search of the right location to build a new home. A swarm is always in a large clump and looks like a ball of bees.
Flowering trees with lots of pollinator activity just means bees (native bees or honey bees) are happily collecting nectar and pollen.
Swarming is one of two methods that honey bees use for reproduction. The queen bee lays eggs to make more worker bees, but in spring, strong hives that survive winter produce a brand new queen and let the old queen leave with the hive and a large group of worker bees to start building a new home. We want bees to survive winter and to build their population, but we don't want them to do so in an inconvenient location.
Call a local beekeeper! We're always happy to help gather the swarm and rehome them.
Stay away! While swarms are generally very gentle and don't sting (because they have no honey or eggs to defend), they can still be aggressive if they are more desperate to find a home or if they've been aggravated.
Don't spray them with anything or call a pest removal service. A beekeeper will help keep our bee population alive. Other options end the lives of our bees, which are necessary for our climate and garden health.
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