Free Swarm Collection
(Toledo and surrounding areas)
419-318-9857
- Please do not disturb or spray with any chemicals.
- How big is the cluster (the size of an orange, volleyball, basketball)? Where is it located? How high off the ground? (Will a ladder or other special equipment be needed?) Are they hanging in a free cluster or are they moving in and out of a cavity?
- Contact us ASAP and we will collect for FREE, usually within minutes to hours.
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Although a swarm of bees can seem terrifying, swarms are usually completely calm and docile. They are not interested in attacking or stinging unless severely provoked. You can often walk right up to them and they won’t even pay any attention to you! They can settle on a branch, a fence or sometimes just in a cluster on the ground. These clusters are temporary and may only last for a few hours. Please don’t delay notifying us so we can collect them before they move into a wall or another closed space which makes them much harder to remove.
Swarms are just bees looking for a new home. As the old colony builds, it eventually starts to get crowded so the old queen will leave with between 20-50% of the old bees and form a cluster while the scout bees go out and look for a new home. We strongly prefer to use local bees in our bee yards and collect as many swarms as we can because of their strong genetics and resistance to disease.