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The Latest Bee Video

We like to video our bee swarm captures and colony removals. Here's the latest one, booknmark this page, send the link to your friends and check back here often to see our latest escapade.

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Beehive Removal | Bee Swarm Removal | Beekeeper List

Here is a list of US Beekeepers who provide beehive removal. If you have a swarm of honeybees, or an established bee colony, call an experienced specialst. Expect to pay for bee hive removal services.

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My Introduction to Honey Bees

When I was about 15, the farmer that I had been working for throughout the summer asked me if I would be willing to help him put new rolled roofing on

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Ask Me a Question | Anything About Honeybees

People always ask me a question whenever people find out that I'm a beekeeper. 'How do bees make honey?', 'How to start beekeeping?' 'How to keep bees.' Every now and then someone comes up with a new one, 'Do bees actually go to sleep at night?', 'What pollinated plants in America before the settlers brought honeybees from Europe?' I never ceases to amaze me that people are so interested. I suppose honeybees are so familiar to everyone, and yet their knowledge is fairly superficial.

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Are These Digger Bees?

Hello, I'm searching far and wide to find the best solution and am hoping you might help. I think I have a digger bee nest in my backyard. It is close

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What to Do About Very Aggressive Bees!

I am a new beekeeper and recently purchased four hives of very healthy bees along with some of the beekeeper's equipment. I have done my homework and

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Can I Use Old Hive Boxes?

I have found 20 or so old hives (wooden framed) in a barn in NY State and wondered if I can use these to start new hives...... if so do I need to disinfect?

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Reversing My Hive in the Fall

I just got 2 hives of bees in may. My neighbor said he had kept 19 hives years ago so I asked him to help me out. I now have one hive as the other swarmed

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Extra Queen, Trying to Make a New Hive?

Hi, I am a new beekeeper. We thought we lost a queen in the hive, they created a new queen since she left and we had already ordered a new queen replacement.

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Rent Bees or Become Beekeepers?

We have ten acres of property and have 6 pecan trees, 1 plum, 2 fig, 3 peach, 3 pear, 1 persimmon, dogwoods and a large vegetable garden. We would like

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Bees dying?

We have a large organic area in which we've planted native plants for our area (east San Diego). We just returned from a trip only to find over 100 dead

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Pest Control

There's no question that sometimes it's necessary to consider pest control even for bees. If the bees are Africanized, the so called killer bees and are very aggressive it is probably a good idea to call a pest control company.

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Get More Swarm Calls

Thank you for taking the time to contact us with your details for inclusion in our swarm removal list.

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How to Start Beekeeping | Bees | Beekeeping

Ancient beekeeping is such a fascinating subject, this site has information about bees and how to become a beekeeper. There is evidence of honey being harvested stretching back for thousands of years. In fact beekeepers have been taking advantage of bees in the wild for a very long time. I have been a 'beek' since about 1998 in a number of different places.

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San Diego Bees | Bee Swarm Removal | Bee Nest Removal

San Diego Bees does bee swarm removal and bee nest removal safely, ALIVE, from trees, walls, chimneys and roofs.

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Get More Swarm Calls

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Beginning Beekeeping

So you think beginning beekeeping might be fun, YOU'RE RIGHT, it's a lot of fun! Although backyard beekeeping is something with which many people have had contact, perhaps a grandfather kept bees, I'm often asked how to start beekeeping, so I created this free course to help people get started

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Swarm Collection

Everyone knows that bees swarm, but not many people have actually seen a swarm in flight. Now you can buy all the swarm collection videos on this website, plus bonus beekeeping photos, with Swarm Collection, and watch them in high definition.

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The BEEginning of BEEing

About a week ago (early June in Oregon) we noticed a swarm of bees clumped in a ball hanging from a branch on the side of the road to our lake. There

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Getting Started with Beekeeping!

I'm very excited about the prospect of being a beekeeper. My wife and I are in our sixties and this seems like a lovely way to spend our golden years.

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What to Do With These Bees?

I just moved into a house about 3 months ago in central Phoenix. When I moved in the guy behind me said I have bees behind my shed. I walked over and looked

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I'm Using a Mite Board

I am a new beekeeper and installed a mite board under my hive in May when I installed my bee package. Should I remove this board in order to give bees

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Mites

I purchased a nuc, and they kicked the first queen out and I replaced her. They filled out the first hive body and so I added the second one and have

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What to do About Bees in the Attic?

Hello, I will appreciate any help you can give. I am a property manager. I have a home in California with a hive problem. They started out in the chimney

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Bee Swarm in Bird Box | Bees Love Owl Boxes Too.

A bee swarm in bird box or owl box tends to put off the intended tenants. A bird box makes an ideal home for a bee swarm and so is a common problem for owners. These bird and owl boxes are often put up in quiet places which the birds will like. Of course honey bees like those places too. They can build combs and fill them with eggs, brood, pollen and honey in quite a short time, often before they are noticed by the owner.

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Alabama Beekeepers and Honeybee Removal

Here is a list of Alabama beekeepers who remove swarms and established bee colonies. Not all people will offer the same range of services, be prepared to pay for their work, these are specialized procedures. Try to give the beekeeper as much information as you can about the location of the swarm, the height above the ground and the length of time they have been there and whether there are any special circumstances you think might be relevant. Please tell the beekeeper when you call, that you found them on the Bees-on-the-Net.com Swarm List

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Bee Shopping | Bee Equipment

Bee shopping starts here, click on the links below to see selections of bee equipment, bee apparel, honey and anything else connected with bees and beekeeping. New items and categories are being added all the time so book mark this page and check back often. If there are items you can't find or would like to see, please send a message via our contact page.

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If Walls Could Talk Instead of Just Buzzing

I often wonder what is going inside the walls of the south side of my house. They certainly are all abuzz with activity. You see there was a small hole

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How Do I Safely Remove an Established Hive from a Maple Log?

There is a maple log lying on the ground in a wooded area. The bees only have access at one end. They have just about filled the log with comb. I have

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Hive Location

In locating a new hive in my urban yard, I am having trouble with a location that satisfies shade in the summer, sun in the winter and east to south facing

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Honey Bee Hive Extraction - From Inside an Oak Tree

Hi, We have a honey bee hive inside our massive oak tree, and unfortunately it needs to be removed because there are many many children in the yard.

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Flowers that Produce Toxic Honey!

I recently learned that foxglove (digitalis) would make the honey harmful by concentrating the amount of digitalis in the evaporated honey. What other

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Your Site Here

You can have your site here as part of Bees-on-the-Net.com! Do you have a website, or perhaps you're just thinking about the possibility but don't know where to start? There are many people who would like to create a website, maybe just a page or two, to sell something. Perhaps they want to sell honey, candles or pollen. maybe they produce a device for beekeepers to help them catch swarms, mark queens or stir honey.

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Bees in the Wall of the Garage

Hello, Thank you so much for the pictures, I have shared them with a lot of people. They have been amazed. My grandson, Ryan, took the honeycomb you

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Advertising on this Website

Do you have a product worth advertising? There's something about beekeeping which seems to attract innovators. It's probably the many challenges which bees, beekeeping and swarm capture present. Many new beekeeping devices and products are developed and here is the place to advertise them.

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Queen, Drone and Worker Cells

What is the difference between a drone cell and a queen cell when looking at brood? Thank you very much, Eddie Dillon Hi Eddie It's very important

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What Species of Trees May Attract a Swarm?

Hello Mr. Beekeeper! We are new beekeepers, we got our first two hives about a month ago and are completely hooked on honey bees! We have asked a couple

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Bees Dying on the Beach

Hello! Any notion as to why bees go to the ocean shore to die? I have seen them crawling around on the waters edge and get drowned. One stung my poor granddaughter

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Bees Building Unwanted Comb Spaces

My bees are filling in the space between my brood box and my first super. Every time I lift the top super to check on the hive I end up destroying all

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Bees and Our Swimming Pool

We have three neighbors who keep numerous hives. We live on one acre lots. The bees are driving us crazy at our salt water swimming pool. I feel like

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How to Deal with Swarm Cells.

After just three weeks into the new hive I found a swarm cell... they said to destroy it so I did.. Why was this happening? The swarm cell was a surprise

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Honey Harvest is Rather Low.

My bee colonies are strong and get sugar water daily. They just don't produce the amount of honey they should. It's a very dark honey real sweet too. I

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Do I Need to Remove Hive in and Owl Box?

Great site - a fine public service. I would appreciate any thoughts on the following problem - if it is indeed a problem. Bees have taken residence

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Virgin Queen or Failed Queen?

Hi - I'm new at the beekeeping adventure - loving it, well, most of the time, except for the times that I'm worrying about the bees! I started a new hive

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There is a show called Billy the Exterminator

There is a show called Billy the Exterminator - he is proud of poisoning bees. He opens the siding of homes so that he can take the comb out, then throws

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Unusual Honey Bee-havior

I live in north central Phoenix. This season I noticed a difference in bee behavior. The bees are often half-dead for no obvious reason (stingers intact,

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