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The Bee Wrangler

We tend bees on my land in Brazoria County. We sell honey every Saturday from 8 a.m. to Noon at the White Oak Farmer's Market at Onion Creek Restaurant and Highland Village Farmer's Market.

Bee Removal

For this bee removal job, a scaffold was errected in order to reach the bee nest. The hive box must remain at the removal sight until nightfall to insure the return of all bees. I cut into the infested area and used a smoker to calm the bees. A screen was used to prevent queen from escaping. The sections of honeycomb are removed; sections that contain brood (larvae) and eggs are carefully cut to fit into wood frames and are then placed in the new hive box in the exact order that they appear in the colony.  One or two frames of honey from the colony are placed in the hive box in order to feed the bees; the remaining honey from the colony is collected and used to feed the new colony in the week following their removal.Once the honeycomb is removed and cleaned from the site a special technique is used to drive the remaining bees out of their old home; at this point the net is utilized to keep the queen from flying away.  The open wall space is then filled with insulation in order to prevent re-infestation; all the original boards are replaced and caulked.  Removal from the inside of a house is possible if the bees are in a wall space with a brick exterior.  If time is not a factor, a “bee escape” may be employed; the bee escape consists of a hive box containing one frame of brood and one frame of honeycomb along with frames containing a wax foundation; over a six week period the bees will relocate themselves into the new hive box. My services will leave the area in good shape when the job is complete.

New Home for the Bees

The bees pictured here are flourishing in their new home near Beasley at Nawara Farms. The surrounding fields are filled with wild flowers, making the honey produced here excellent for those who suffer from certain allergies.

Harvesting the Honey

A number of our bees are at certified organic Gundermann Farms near Glen Flora, Texas. All honey is extracted at Gunderman Farms and put directly into glass jars in a certified organic kitchen. One Russian colony is kept next to a recent removal and an older colony removed from the Vadcek farm in Wharton, TX. All honey is stored at below 50°, as dictated by the National Honey Board.

Skydive Houston / Waller, TX

This house had four colonies of bees that needed to be removed.

La Porte Bees

After two weeks, I had to return to get a queen for the queen-less hive on this job. When they were reunited, they were moved to Gundermann's melon field Elm Grove, and are doing very well.

Cindy Ln. Bees - Timbergrove Area

Deer Park + Baclif Bee Combination

Combining a small, queenless swarm from Deer Park with an even smaller swarm (leftover) of a colony that came out of a tree cut down on Thanksgiving day in Bacliff, TX (brr! It was cold!).

Tanker Surfing