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   Honey Bee Swarm Catchers List ( bee "rescuers")
Bees or Wasps? --check THIS PAGE first


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Honey Bee Swarms

Generally a bee colony will send out a queen and bees to find a new home. This is their way of creating a new colony.

The bees will alight on a branch or other place for only a few hours or days. They then leave to a more sheltered permanent place such as a hollow tree, abandoned building, house soffit, and so on.


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Paper Wasp Nest

Paper wasps form grayish papery nests, that start as small as a golf ball and can grow into very large nests, hanging from a branch, or under house eaves. In the winter they all die, except for the queen, which overwinters in mulch or the ground, and starts all over again in the spring.
* Please consult your local pest control company on how to deal with wasps.

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Ground bees or WASPS

1)  If you have bees coming from the ground, they are not honey bees, as they only nest above ground.
In the spring, native bees will have numerous pencil width holes in the ground. These are fairly harmless. Please see this page (link) to learn more about them.

2) In the mid to late summer and fall, wasps have begun large colonies- see above photo. They have bright yellow on their bodies, which honey bees do not have.
* Please consult your local pest control company on how to deal with wasps.

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2022 Swarm List – RochesterBeekeepers.com
 
For removal of honey bees inside a structure or house ONLY:
  • Rochester 50 miles 585-260-6860   Doug Streeter    trap-outs, cut-outs
  • Monroe county, Lima and Avon    585-230-9061   Mike Itterman      cut-outs and trap-outs
  • Rochester, Rush-Henrietta, and surrounding areas, 585-404-5366 ,Taylor Hine

For removal of honey bee swarms (see photo above):

10 mile radius from Pittsford ;585-217-1132, 585-217-1132, Dave Mesmer

Swarm removal 8 feet up or less, within 50 mile radius of Rochester; 585-330-2234,Katie Besaw

Honeoye Falls, Mendon, Pittsford, Victor up to 6' high; 585-455-2247, Jeff Levinn

Mendon, Honeoye falls, pittsford, Henrietta; 585-410-5795, Bud Langley

Rochester 75 miles radius; 585-260-6860, Doug Streeter

Avon, Geneseo, Caledonia, Scottsville, Rush, Lima, Conesus, Honeoye,up to 12" high ; 585-330-1568, Bryan Glotzbach

Monroe county, Lima and Avon; 585-230-9061,Mike Itterman

Eastern Monroe, Northeast Wayne County, Brighton up to 6" high; 585-820-6619,Pat Bono

Monroe County West of 390,Orleans County East of Albion; 585-228-9995,Scott Martin

Henrietta, Chili, and Scottsville, up to 8" high up to 8" high; 585-754-2764, Cat Ashworth

Gates, Rochester area; 585-489-9321,Tarik Ozkaynak

Monroe, Livingston, Genesee, Ontario CTY; 585-820-5793,Jesse Perkins

Mendon, Bloomfield, Avon, Rush, Henrietta;585-203-7713.Jim and Diane Downer

Rush, Honeoye Falls, Mendon, Lima, Avon, Henrietta, Caledonia. Up to 12 feet high, not in structure walls; 585 764-7570,.Audrey Seibert

Greece, NY Willing to go 30 miles and about 12’ or less; (585) 490-8914 (cell), Matt Zodarecky

Rochester East side out to Fairport up to 6' high; 585-298-7361, Elizabeth Cameron

Hilton area; 585-953-4338, Pauline Baker

Webster & Irondequoit areas Up to 8 feet high; 585-944-2594, Tim Palermo

Monroe county; 585.703.4014, Fino Profeta 

Southwest Wayne county as well as Fairport, Farmington, and Victor, (585)752-8769, Mark Sanson

western Genesee county, 585 993 0464,  Paul Trowbridge

Rochester, Rush-Henrietta, and surrounding areas, 585-404-5366 ,Taylor Hine

A youtube video taken by a homeowner with a bee swarm outside his front door!

Bee swarm season is upon us. Beekeepers are desperately seeking honey bees to replace bees that may have died during the last cold Winter. VOLUNTEER beekeepers are prepared to collect or remove swarms
FREE OF CHARGE.
  • 1) If you see a bee swarm, contact a beekeeper immediately (LIST BELOW), either through the Rochester Beekeepers 585-820-6619 there are lists of beekeepers on their "swarm list", as does the
  • Monroe County Master Gardener Helpline 585-753-2550
  •  2) Do not spray with pesticides or water, as this may kill the Queen and other bees.
  •  3) A fresh bee swarm usually will not sting as they are concerned with moving to a new home.
  •  4) If possible, please tell the beekeeper:
  •                                                                                     a) how high the swarm is, what is it on?
  •                                                                                     b) How long has it been there?
  •                                                                                     c) How big is it? basketball size, watermelon size?
  •                                                                                      d) Have you called other beekeepers?
  •  5) Once you have called a beekeeper to capture the swarm, please notify them immediately if the swarm has left.        

  •    NOTE: Those volunteering to assist the general public in the capture of honey bee swarms are responsible for all activities related to any capture and collection, including any communications with the general public that may be involved. "Rochester Beekeepers" assumes no responsibility related to the capture and collection activity.               

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