If you find a honey bee swarm, first try to identify if it is truly honey bees. The pictures below show what a honey bee swarm can look like. If you see a swarm of potentially angry flying insects it is always wise to give them space. My experience has been that honey bee swarms are just trying to survive and they pay no attention to people or pets. Stinging insects that aren’t honey bees as seen below can be aggressive just from getting near them.

If you see a swarm and live in the Carbon County Pa area, please give me a call or text at (610) 209-9061 (Tim). I will be happy to come out and collect them as soon as I can.

The above picture was taken when I went to check on my swarm traps, I happened to arrive right as a swarm was moving in. This swarm took about 15 minutes to accumulate and begin to enter the box. I was standing in a farm field when they arrived unprotected and they didn’t pay any attention to me. It was a beautiful thing to witness first hand, if you don’t mind getting pooped on by bees :D.

This was a swarm I rescued from a families back yard. The bees were very calm and had started to build wax already on this bird bath. The removal consisted of brushing the bees off into a box with 5 frames of drawn out comb in it. I closed the top of the box and waited around 15 minutes for the rest of the bees to walk into the box.

These images illustrate some of the visual differences between a honey bee and a yellow jacket. If the spicy flies you find in your back yard are yellow jackets, please don’t call me, if they are honey bees please do call me :D.