Honey Bee Swarm Catchers List ( bee "rescuers")
Bees or Wasps? --check THIS PAGE first
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. |
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. |
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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2021 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
For removal of honey bee swarms (see photo above):
10 mile radius from Pittsford
585-217-1132
Dave Mesmer
Webster & Irondequoit areas Up to 8 feet high
585-944-2594
Tim Palermo
Swarm removal 8 feet up or less, within 50 mile radius of Rochester
585-330-2234
Katie Besaw
Rochester East side out to Fairport up to 6' high
585-298-7361
Elizabeth Cameron
Honeoye Falls, Mendon, Pittsford, Victor up to 6' high
585-455-2247
Jeff Levinn
Mendon, Honeoye falls, Pittsford, Henrietta
585-410-5795
Bud Langley
Monroe county
585.703.4014
Fino Profeta
Rochester 75 miles radius
585-260-6860
Doug Streeter trap-outs, Cutouts, swarms
Monroe County
585-953-3285.
jack Allen
Southwest Wayne county as well as Fairport, Farmington, and Victor
(585)752-8769
Mark Sanson
Avon, Geneseo, Caledonia, Scottsville, Rush, Lima, Conesus, Honeoye
585-330-1568
Bryan Glotzbach; up to 12’ high
Monroe county, Lima and Avon
585-230-9061
Mike Itterman; cut-outs & trap-outs
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
20 miles from Scottsville or Henrietta up to 8’ high
585-754-2764
Cat Ashworth
Kendall area
540-239-3225
William Dixon
Gates, Rochester area
585-489-9321
Tarik Ozkaynak
Monroe, Livingston, Genesee, Ontario Counties
585-820-5793
Jesse Perkins
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.
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.
