Bee removal recs

If you google Baton Rouge Bee removal, the LSU Ag centers has some names and there are other results. Most of these are bee keepers who want the queen/swarm.

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Thanks, saw that too and one of the guys listed there has come out twice with no success and is looking for more money so I was hoping for a personal recommendation/reference.

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my dads a bee keeper and removal person but not in your area.

Is it a raised home and they are getting into the subfloor or a stucco home? Those seem to be the most common places, stucco beams being the first. It just takes a very small hole in the stucco for them to get into.

If you know someone with a thermal camera you can see their heat signature usually.

Looks like they’re getting into the soffit area between the second and third floor.

I've killed them with Bengal foggers. I've tried spraying pesticide (Suspend & Bifenthrin) around their entry hole, but fogging was the only thing that worked for me.

I would not want 10000 dead bees in my walls or ceiling and if you do not remove the comb and honey they will come back. Everything will also try and get to the honey and wax like wax moths and hive beetles and they can cause the honey to ferment and then it runs like water out of the comb. Look up the Louisiana Bee Keepers Association or wherever you are located and see if they have someone who is on list to collect bees. Go to a local farmers market and see if anyone is selling honey or candles and ask them.

Thanks. A little more back story…. They replaced the roof this past spring and the roofers had a bee keeper come and remove them. That lasted until August when I paid the same bee keeper to come again because we were seeing wax worms in one of the bedrooms. He basically told me that there was no hive or colony via his thermal scope. He added a small amount of caulking to the soffit area where he saw some activity and had some spray he used on the area around it. Now the kids are seeing 8-10 bees a week inside the townhouse.