If you are here you are most likely having a problem with honeybees. The bees have either invaded the walls or ceiling of your home. Don't worry, we are dedicated to helping you by providing professional removal established colony from your property. We want to remove and preserve the honeybees that may have taken up residence on your property. We are bee keepers who enjoy the art of beekeeping and have made it part of our life to preserve and protect the honeybee. Honeybees are a precious resource that deserves our help.

​Calling us about a swarm?

Please contact us for your swarm removal needs in Cumberland, Harnett, Samson, Wake, Robeson county.

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Make sure you have the following information ready, to the best of your knowledge:

1. Are these wasps and not honey bees? If they are     wasps, call an exterminator.

2. How big is the swarm? Softball, volleyball, basket ball sized? Or larger?

3.  How long have the bees been there?

4. Where is the main cluster or swarm of bees?

5.  Are the bees within a structure?

6.  Are the bees in a tree? Or some other tall location?

7. How high in the air?

8.  Do you have access to a ladder that can reach them?

9.  Have they built a nest of any sort?

10. Will there be someone at the location?

11.  Are the bees on your property?

12. Is this is a business?

Removal from structures and outside locations should be done by a professional who has the equipment and knowledge necessary to pinpoint the location of the honey bees and properly remove the bees. As many as 30,000 to 80,000 bees could be in your ceiling or walls. Don't put yourself in danger, call us today.

  There are two phases to a honey bee colony development. The first is the swarm stage where approximately half of the established colony departs with the original queen to form a new colony. The remaining honey bees raise a new queen and continue the original colony. The act of swarming is how honeybees procreate. The swarm is just a temporary transitional phase until a new colony can be formed. Swarms usually find a location to hang and are usually about the size of a football. Often you will find swarms hanging in trees or on fences, picnic tables and even the sides of homes. This is a temporary location for the group to form while the scout bees hunt for a location to move into and form a permanent colony. Hanging swarms usually move to a permanent location within anywhere from a few hours to a few days of swarming. Depending on the height of the swarm to the ground, the swarm is the easiest to deal with.  

The second stage is the actual forming of a colony. This is where the bees have decided to take up permanent residence and start building comb, raising brood, and storing nectar. They usually try to find a confined space with a minimal opening for an entrance. Often times they will take up residence in an old tree but more often they end up in much less convenient places like the walls or attic or your house. There are two methods, depending on the situation, that we employ for removing bees from a structure, trapping or cut out.

REMOVAL FROM WALLS / CUT OUT

The honey bee colony should be salvaged alive if possible. Honey bee swarms that have recently entered the wall of a structure, say for a day or so, can often be removed with little to no damage to the structure. The bees should not have had time to construct a significant amount of comb, produce much brood or store much honey unless a very strong nectar flow is in progress. Remember that if the bees have stored much honey in the wall and you kill the colony with a pesticide; 1) a foul odor is to be expected for several weeks in the vicinity of the decaying bees and 2) the honey and wax will remain attracting ants, mice and other pest. 3) honey and may ooze through the wall or ceiling when comb melts during hot weather and 4) foraging bees from another nearby managed or feral bee colony will be attracted to the honey in the wall and may cause other unnecessary colony demise or cause them to move in. The beekeepers at Craven Honey will remove the bees and the honey comb, clearing out the void preventing another swarm from entering the same cavity the next swarm season and relieving the many problems with just "treating" honey bees with pesticide.