Bee Hive Removal Gaviota Hollister Ranch

This hive removal was done on Hollister Ranch.  The electrical box on the side of a barn happened to be the new home of a large bee colony.  The bees found just a little hole in the panel door and decided it was a perfect entrance to a new home.

Looks pretty innocent from this angle - entrance is at top right corner.

Here's what it looked like when the panel door was opened. The hive extended
another  8 inches above the top of this photo.

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Bee Hive Removal Hope Ranch

This was a unique hive removal. Two separate hives had found their way into the wall space on both sides of a window nook. There happened to be two holes in the stucco at each corner where the roof flashing met the stucco on the upper corner. The first hive was present on and off for several years and the second hive for just a couple of weeks. For this removal it was determined that accessing the hive from inside the house would be better than opening up exterior stucco. A dust, debris, and bee screen kept the rest of the room clean.

This was hive #1 - several years old.  Approx. 4 feet in length and it extended into the attic space.

           

Hive #2 - just a few weeks old.

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Bee Hive Removal Lompoc

This was a bee hive on a Lompoc ranch, another example of bees recolonizing a previous hive spot.  Once a hive has been removed it is critical to get the area cleaned, filled, and sealed up to prevent future infestations.  This hive was very large, the honeycomb extended roughly 4 feet long.

The problem area was the corner of the trim (right side of photo in middle).  The bees were coming in there
and moving up into the eave space. The honey comb extended another 12 inches down tot he right. The openings on the left were areas that bees had occupied in the past - two separate hives in the past 12 months.

While the comb only went half way up the opening here, bees were all the way up to the top.  As bees were removed we placed wall insulation in the opening to keep the bees confined to one half of the space and worked our way down.

 Santa Barbara Bee Company - "A full service bee company!"

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Hive Removal - Santa Barbara Apartment Complex

A three week old hive removed from the roof of an apartment complex near SBHS.  The resident manager cut through the roof wall so we could access the hive.  It wasn't large, just a bit tricky to locate. The hive entrance was below a rain scupper and the hive was in the raised side wall of the roof.

 Santa Barbara Bee Company - "A full service bee company!"

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Hive Removal - Goleta

A very large hive located in the roof of a two story playhouse in Goleta.  The hive had been at this location for 3+ years and had completely filled the space between ceiling joists.  It had recently swarmed (three weeks prior) so there was no brood comb.  The new queen had yet to start laying eggs.  There was 30 lbs of honey in this hive. This bee hive was relocated to langstroth boxes and placed into an orchard.

Photos coming soon!

 Santa Barbara Bee Company - "A full service bee company!"

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Goleta Bee Swarm Removal

Nice soccer ball size swarm ball that was on an avocado tree in Goleta near DPHS.

Santa Barbara Bee Company - "A full service bee company!"

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Bee Hive Removal Lompoc

A good example of bees re-establishing themselves after a prior removal.  It is absolutely necessary to close up and seal all areas around a recent removal so the next swarm is not able to move back into the empty space.

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Bee Hive Removal Goleta

A recent swarm that started a new hive in an old Goleta farm house.  It was in a wall space between an old closed off window and an unused storage room. Five layers of new comb that extend all the way up to the header board.

Santa Barbara Bee Company - "A full service bee company!"

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3 Goleta Swarms in One Evening

Swarm Removal Goleta. It is swarm season, but it's always nice when you can get 3 swarms in just a couple of hours and all within 1 mile of my home.  The first by DPHS, the second on the corner of Glen Annie and Cathedral Oaks (small farm corner) and the last all the way up Glen Annie above the reservoir.

To top it all off I picked up one additional swarm the next day in Ellwood Canyon.  I wish it was always this easy!

Santa Barbara Bee Company - "A full service bee company!"

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Bee Hive Removal Hope Ranch

Bee hive removal Hope Ranch area.  Tip of the day - do not let a hive move into your home and do nothing for three years. At first it might seem pretty cool, just a few bees moving in and out of a wall or roof eave, but before long hives that are left alone can grow to an immense size.

This hive was removed from a rental property. It moved into a roof eave and grew very large. This wasn't an attic space, yet rather just the space between a vaulted ceiling and composite roof. Since there were so many bees in multiple spaces several openings had to be created to access all the comb and bees that had been left unchecked for 2-3 years.  Jobs that include major cutting are done in conjunction with Dan Briner construction.  He does the major cutting and handles the repair separately.

Approximately 20 bee combs filled the entire area of the largest cut-out.  In the photo above, 4-5 layers of honey comb were attached to the ridge beam between the joists, which than led to brood comb and then more honey comb. The second box area was cut on the next work day, which revealed additional comb and a large number of bees.

Santa Barbara Bee Company - "A full service bee company!"

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Bee Hive Removal Gaviota

Bee hive removal in the picturesque setting of Hollister Ranch in Gaviota.  The hive was most likely a couple of years old and needed to be removed since the owner was going to demo the shed.  To make the whole process go quicker, the owner was willing to do all of the cutting in the floor area if I could provide a bee suit.  Instead of giving you more photos of bees, this time I just wanted to include a few shots of the landscape.

Santa Barbara Bee Company - "A full service bee company!"

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Bee Hive Removal Goleta

So have you ever wondered what was in those cylinder shaped cable boxes that sit out on your side yard?  Yes, sometimes more than just cable. 

This was a hive that had been around longer than one season. I had picked up a swarm from this hive approx. 2 weeks ago and it may have swarmed again as recently as few days prior to the extraction.

Bee Swarm Season is Here in Santa Barbara

Bees are now starting to swarm.  In the last couple of weeks I've picked up 4 bee swarms...

2/7 - Isla Vista_ With the help from a friend who climbed the pepper tree to clip the branch as I was perched on a ladder in the bed of my truck with a box... Thanks Jesse. This swarm actually left the deep hive box that I placed it in the next day and I had to rehive it.  It is now doing very well.

2/21 - Goleta_ A nice swarm on a wire fence from a survivor hive.  The hive was located in the base of a large yucca tree and the bees swarmed and balled up on the fence about 45 feet away.