SWARMS 

A honey bee swarm is a mass of honey bees resting on their way to a new home. They will leave within hours or days. Honey bee swarms consist of thousands of individual honey bees collected in a mass around their queen, waiting for scout bees to return with the location of a new hive site to which they can move off to. Swarms can form on tree branches, porch rails, or just about anywhere. They are gentle and generally rest in one location for only a short time. 

Beekeepers only collect honey bee swarms: not bumblebees,  yellow jackets, wasps, hornets, or ground nesting bees. Sometimes a flowering plant, bush, or tree receives a lot of attention from many pollinators; but unless there are thousands tightly packed together in a ball, it's not a swarm that can be captured and relocated.

Check our members list for beekeepers in your area who will collect swarms.

You can  email us at Gbbees23@gmail.com and we may be able to match up a beekeeper in your area to help you or catch that swarm! Make sure you supply a picture of either the swarm, or bee to make sure they are honeybees. Beekeepers DO NOT deal with other kinds of bees.

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You can also check this list to find a beekeeper in your area: https://www.mdbeekeepers.org/swarm-retrieval-list/