Woke up to this today.

Every time bees come up, comments like this are posted. Call a beekeeper, they'll take care of it right quick! It really, really sounds like beekeepers are chomping at the bit to pick up any old bees that set up shop in your lawn and in my experience that's not the case at all. People will come and do it, but you have to pay. I had a swarm show up and remembered these comments - it cost me several hundred dollars and took 2 days for someone to show up. I'd have left it but it was over the weekend and there's 30+ kids playing in yards within 100m of where they were.

This is why my local bee removal site said:

Does anyone want my bees, isn't there a bee shortage?

Way back in the day :) beekeepers used to line up to collect your bees, however in the 1980's & 90's, there were two harsh changes in the industry causing many beekeepers to stop collecting stray hives, and also to abandon beekeeping altogether. First, in the 80's diseases that were never around before began plaguing and killing the common honeybee. Second, bees have become much more aggressive due to the spread of africanized honeybees, (AHB) which crossed over from South America creating in the process a hybrid honeybee now stretching from Southern California to Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Florida, and several other states. For these two reasons, it's much harder to find a beekeeper that will remove your bees for free. For a brief history on honeybee removal and to view the AHB's progress visit the honey bee removal map. Bees in the structure of home or building can also be very difficult to remove.

Maybe in certain parts of the country it's different, but I had a hell of a time here in South Texas.

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