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.

As some have said, bee removals are difficult this time of year. I don’t advise spraying the bees to kill them. When you have someone kill the bees without removing them, you are making the problem worse. Now you have dead rotting bees in the wall. Then you have unprotected honey, pollen and wax that hive beetles, wax moths, roaches, ants and mice are attracted to. It can be a nasty mess if the bees with the comb aren’t removed. There is a major difference in a swarm removal and a cutout. Swarms are usually clustered on a branch or something temporarily while scout bees look for a permanent home. Those are usually easy and no charge. When bees get inside a wall and build it is a completely different situation. You have got to locate them usually with a thermal camera, usually cutting sheet rock, soffit and whatever is in the way go get to the colony. Lots of removals require tools, saws all, tarps, bee vacuums, ladders or scaffolding. Not a cheap investment at all, not including having to wear a bee suit in 100 temps if it’s on an outside wall. The problem is no you still have that bee pheromone, scent in that space. Bees will want to come back to it again. You need to fill that cavity with insulation and then caulk it very well. Still no guarantee that bees can find a way back in. It can be a ton of work to remove bees and repair the damage and put everything back together. I hope this helps clarify a little.