Blackland Bees

Every once in a while we get the opportunity to solve little problems for our downtown businesses. Just because you might be surrounded by tall buildings doesn’t mean you won’t have bees! With the Queen captured and the colony safely vacuumed and transported, these bees have now signed a new lease on a bungalow in Lower Greenville. Now everyone go enjoy a lovely dinner on the patio at Fond…bee free!!!

Bees, sharing the pasture today. 😊

When your client’s house will be demolished between Christmas and the New Year, you have to move their bees tonight!

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Oh, Christmas bees, oh Christmas bees…

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Thanks to our friends for the opportunity to rescue and relocate a swarm that stopped by for a frosty beverage!

In the Spring of 2024, the Dallas Park and Recreation Department put out a request for proposals to have an official beekeeper for the entire park system. This was a way to streamline, for this first time, the process of bee removals throughout city parks and trails. We were honored to be selected in that RFP process and have been working with the city this past year.

Every once in a while, removals can be very unique. Most recently, we removed a colony that had built behind an old tennis backboard at a rec center. No one had any idea as to how thick this backboard was, because it’s decades old. It was a challenge to even get the right concrete saw that would work! Interesting fact, though…this backboard actually had TWO colonies (one on each side)!!! We completed removal on the left side and will be headed out soon to take care of the right side.

You never know what you’ll get in the “day of a life of a beekeeper.” 🪚🔨🐝

So happy we could help out our friends at Lakewood Brewing Company ahead of Mother’s Day weekend. Nothing like pairing bees with brews. 🐝🍺

Beginning removal on a lovely Lake Highlands Cape Cod. 🐝

Who says sugar water is just for bees?!?!

Absolutely beautiful day to speak to the Richardson Homeschool Nature Club about honeybees! 🐝

During this first , probably a couple more to come, we took the opportunity to feed this yard and apply a round of Oxalic Acid. We’re trying the fondant this year which fits nicely with the 3/8” shim that we have on our migratory lids.

The Oxalic Acid application is very effective this time of year when the hives have very little brood and therefore few caps for the mites to hide under. The fondant is cheap insurance to get them through these cold spells and into the true Spring without having to install feeding shims or additional equipment.

Last box rescue of the season. Thanks to the Siglin family for the opportunity to relocate these .