Have a Honey Bee Swarm?
Have a Honey Bee Swarm?
If you see a honey bee swarm or have found a colony on your property, first you need to make sure they are actually honey bees. You may have yellow jacket wasps or other types of bees
Honeybee
Visits flowers for nectar and pollen. Not interested in people food.
Yellowjacket Wasp
Carnivorous wasp that visits your picnics. Nests in cavities and in the ground
Bumblebee
Also visits flowers for nectar and pollen. Lives in the ground in smaller colonies than honeybees.
Honey bee swarms are not aggressive. They are actually custered together until they find a new home. You can read more about swarms in our blog At The Bee Farm and in this post on Treehugger
Below are beekeepers in Chicago who will remove honey bee swarms.
Peter Gurba Will remove Bees, Wasps, Bumblebees and Hornets. Capture yellow jackets, do cut outs, swarm and hive removal from buildings, trees, and other structures. Every effort to safely relocate the bees in to apiaries, with minimal work and price.
Sokul1@aol.com
224-532-9226
Jeff Leider Will remove all Bees: Bumblebees, Hornets Yellow Jackets, Wasps and do cutouts, swarm and hive removal from buildings, trees, and other structures. Every effort to safely relocate the bees into apiaries, with minimal work and chemical-free removal. Please call or send photos to email or text number provided. Will remove bees from Chicago/North Shore, Cook County, Lake County, DuPage County.
JLHoneybeefarms@gmail.com
773-481-5881
Marcus Schaufele Will remove swarms in Northwest Cook County (Chicago, Park Ridge, Des Plaines, Morton Grove, Niles, Glenview, Prospect Heights, Northbrook, Skokie).
queenhoney@ameritech.net
847-296-9383
Stephen Tomczyk will remove bees in structures and capture swarms in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago
stomczyk7@sbcglobal.net
224-434-8706
Bill Whitney All Bee, Wasp, and Hornet removals throughout Chicagoland. We ethically perform live bee removals and building repair. Our company, City Bee Savers, is fully insured and licensed by the Illinois Dept of Public Health
CityBeeSavers@gmail.com
630-660-9846
Matthew Brener will capture swarms in Kane, DuPage, McHenry, Boone, Dekalb, Kendall and Western Cook Counties.
mattman3001@hotmail.com
847-274-7773
If you find that you have a wasp nest, here is some good information about how to deal with it.
Image from Purdue University Plant and Pest Laboratory