Humane Honeybee Re-homing

I am dedicated to teaching the general pubic the difference between Honeybee Exterminators that pose as rescuers vs Beekeepers that truly rescue honeybees. Honeybee brood (Unhatched honeybees) are incubated to 95F by nurse bees in the hive. Therefore, the process of removing the brood, framing it up in a hive box and putting the bee’s back on the brood needs to happen immediately after the rescue or the brood will die. If you only see 5-gallon buckets that all the comb is going into; your bees are not being rescued/rehomed, they are being “relocated” which means just dumping them in a field somewhere to die or to find a neighbor’s home to start building a new nest.

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A special low suction bee vacuum is used to collect the honeybees. The brood (incubated baby bees) are framed up using rubber bands and put in a hive box. Immediately after extraction the bees are then placed back on their brood in their new hive box to continue the incubation cycle.