{"id":1800,"date":"2016-06-17T10:45:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T14:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naplesbees.com\/staging\/?page_id=1800"},"modified":"2025-08-10T12:06:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T16:06:21","slug":"bee-removals-and-swarms-2016","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/naplesbees.com\/staging\/bee-removals-and-swarms-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Bee Removals and Swarms – 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hundreds of bee removals from trees\/houses\/roofs\/sheds\/water meters\/etc have been done over the years. Hive access is sometimes difficult and sometimes easy. Every removal situation is different and always an adventure.\u00a0 If you have bees that need removing give us a chance to relocate them to a good home in an area hobby beekeeper’s apiary.\u00a0 The NaplesBees apiary owner is licensed by the state of Florida for live bee removal.\u00a0 Not all types of removals can be done, based on various factors including access to the hive or space in my apiary.<\/em><\/span>\u00a0 Click <\/span>here<\/span><\/a> to contact NaplesBees for a quick response to any request.\u00a0 Below is a chronological listing of a few of the bee removals done over the years.\u00a0
\nClick on any year to see all the types<\/span>
\nof removals done in a specific year<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

See 2026 year 28 bee removals here<\/a><\/span>
\nSee 2025 year 21 bee removals here<\/a><\/span>
\nSee 2024 year 19 bee removals here<\/span><\/a>
\nSee 2023 year 12 bee removals here<\/a><\/span>
\nSee 2022 year 38 bee removals here<\/a><\/span>
\nSee 2021 year 60 bee removals here<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\nSee 2020 year 55 bee removals here<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\nSee 2019 year 10 bee removals here<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong>See 2018 year 6 bee removals<\/span> here<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>
\nSee 2017 year 12 bee removals<\/span> here<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/span>See 2014-2016 years 28 bee removals here<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Bee removal highlights for 2016 and earlier
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Removal 1:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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9\/27\/2014<\/strong> \u2013 Photos of our swarm removal from a local Naples house. Click on pictures for full size images.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The swarm was located near the peak of the roof.<\/p><\/div>

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A little smoke calms the ladies down.<\/p><\/div>

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The bees retreat exposing the beautiful combs attached to the wall.<\/p><\/div>

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Cutting the comb away from the wall and placing in a nuc box.<\/p><\/div>

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Bees in their new home.<\/p><\/div>

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Once at the apiary and after a day, the opening of the nuc entrance resulted in the bees leaving the nuc and going over to another hive. This happened probably because the swarm nuc was queenless. Since we saw many bees going in and out of the roof tiles. we did not get the queen because she was most likely inside the tile roof structure on the house and not on the soffit\/wall combs we collected.<\/p><\/div>

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View of ANOTHER VERY LARGE swarm that may have to be removed at some future date.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

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Removal 2:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
7\/1\/2015<\/strong>\u00a0 – We were asked to take a look at a hive that established itself in an upside down flower pot located near a storage shed. Investigation showed the bees to be gentle, with agreeable temperament, and the hive looked good to try to save. Thanks for the following pictures go to Nora and Tom Peek, Naples area photographers. Click on any picture for a larger view.<\/span>
\nJuly 2, 2015 – UPDATE: We had a hard, long rain this afternoon. A check on the new hive after the rain showed the hive completely EMPTY ! All bees were gone from the hive. The hive was dry and clean with no dead bees and lots of brood comb abandoned.
\nJuly 6, 2015 – UPDATE: We had left a brood box next to the tipped over flower pot because we saw a lot of bees collected there, with the hope that they might make the brood box their new home. It appears they did exactly that and we transported the hive box to our apiary in the hopes we will be able to queenright the hive. <\/span>
\n<\/span>July 24, 2015 \u2013 UPDATE: Earlier in the month, we had taken brood and eggs from another hive and placed in this hive. Hive inspection today showed all the queen cells have hatched but no sign of a queen except for the one cell I had caged. It has an active queen confined. We are expecting bad weather for the next few days, so she will remain confined for a while before deciding to release her in this hive or make a new nuc.<\/span>
\nJuly 25, 2015 \u2013 UPDATE: the hive has a roaming queen so some more brood frames were removed from hive #7 to make the hive stronger. So far so good on queen rearing.<\/span><\/span>
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Closing up and getting the hive ready to transport to its new home<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

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Removal 3:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Tale of a WildFlower Apiary swarm chase………<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, October 31,2015, we happened to notice a ball of bees on the back top edge of one of our larger hives. It was a swarm. So we quickly set up a new hive box with frames and sugar syrup in order to see if we could catch it……<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Sweep the ball of bees into a bucket and dump into the new empty hive.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. The bees leave and ball up on an old satellite dish.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Sweep the ball of bees into a bucket and dump back in the new hive<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. The bees leave and ball up on the outside of the new hive (video below starts) and then move over to the hive corner where I first saw them (video below end)<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Sweep the ball of bees into a bucket and dump back into the new hive box<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. This time, they leave again and go over to the bee cam and cover the housing.<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Sweep the bees into a bucket and dump back in the new hive box.<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. This time, I close up the new hive box entrance and leave them until the next day, hoping that they will get acclimated to the new location.<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. Next day, I open the hive entrance, and they instantly boil out and swarm to a high branch in a tree. Out of reach, I leave a nuc box on a ladder, thinking they may find that suitable. I give up as I’ve given it my best shot…. 4 bucket transfers attempts.
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  10. Next day, I see activity at the entrance of the new hive box. If this is the same swarm I had been chasing, then they, for some reason, decided to come back to the new hive box that they originally had been dumped into and left 4 times…… go figure…….<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n