Swarm Rescue & Honeybee Extraction

Fast. Safe. Live Removal. Protect Your Property and Save the Bees.

Discovering a swirling cloud or a basketball-sized cluster of bees on your property can be alarming—but it is actually a completely natural process. When a wild colony outgrows its home, the old queen and half the hive leave to search for a new location. With Anointed Apiaries’ professional swarm rescue service, you do not need to panic or call traditional pest control. We provide safe, live extractions that remove the risk from your property while giving the displaced colony a second chance in a managed apiary.

Our licensed and insured beekeepers respond quickly to residential and commercial calls, ensuring the cluster is safely captured before it moves into walls, chimneys, or structural voids where extraction becomes far more complex.

What's Included in Your Swarm Rescue Service

• Rapid emergency response: Prompt phone triage and priority dispatch to secure the swarm before it moves into structure walls.
• Safe, live bee capture: Specialized transport boxes and gentle vacuum systems designed specifically to protect bees during relocation.
• Mated queen location verification: Ensuring the queen is safely captured so the rest of the cluster stays willingly inside the transport box.
• Site scent masking: Application of eco-friendly olfactory deterrents to prevent scout bees from returning to the same spot.
• Post-extraction property assessment: Inspecting nearby structures for potential entry points to prevent future structural colonization.
• Colony quarantine and rehabilitation: Relocating the rescued bees to an isolated quarantine apiary for health monitoring.
• Immediate Varroa mite screening: Testing and treating the wild colony to ensure they are clean before integrating them near other managed hives.
• Detailed digital incident report: Summary of the extraction, colony assessment, and any structural recommendations for your records.

Why Choose Anointed Apiaries

• Live removal focus: We never exterminate. We believe in conservation, giving displaced wild colonies a productive future.
• Equipped for complexity: Trained and insured to operate ladders and specialized extraction gear safely on your property.
• Pest control alternative: Traditional exterminators charge high fees to kill pollinators; we relocate them safely, often at a fraction of structural repair costs.
• Local behavioral expertise: We understand regional flight patterns, seasonal swarm triggers, and local weather impacts on bee behavior.
• Community-first mindset: Quick, calm, and professional execution that keeps your family, neighbors, or customers safe and informed.

Service Specifics

• Assessment fee: $75 (applied directly toward the removal cost if the swarm is present).
• Standard open swarm removal: $150 to $300 (for clusters easily accessible on branches, fences, or low bushes).
• Complex / elevated extraction: $350+ (scales based on height, ladder/equipment requirements, and staging complexity).
• Structural / wall extractions: Quote provided upon physical inspection (dependent on construction materials and access needs).
• Suitable for: Backyard trees, fences, overhangs, commercial entryways, playground equipment, and residential structures.
• Available for: Homeowners, property managers, corporate campuses, municipalities, and public parks.
• Post-rescue destination: Relocated to an Anointed Apiaries quarantine yard for health evaluation and eventual integration into hosting programs.