Honey Bees - EHS Pest Control Solutions

Honey Bees  - Apis mellifera

    Honey Bees

 

Honey bees are the number one pollinator of edible crops in North America. We rely on them for maximizing yields and for their production of honey as a food source and sweetener. Unlike wasps, they are not predatory but feed themselves and the colony with nectar and honey year round.

When the colony reaches a certain size it produces an additional queen which leave the main colony with a large number of workers and will nest in another location. This is why hundreds of honey bees are sometimes seen swarming around a small area (like a tree branch), because they are protecting a queen as she searches for a new home. Unfortunately, it is sometimes yours.

Procedure - Honey bees are wonderful insects, but the risk they pose upon swarming someone’s home is often too great for the customer. EHS offers a program which covers the inspection and identification of a honey bee infestation, but also its treatment AND removal of the pounds (and sometimes hundreds of pounds) that the honey bees may have produced.  

EHS proudly services all of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, including but not limited to Newton, Brookline, Cambridge, Wellesley, Boston, Milton, Sharon, Needham, Dedham, Watertown, Waltham, Wayland, Westwood, Canton, Stoughton, Walpole, Medfield, Mansfield, Carlisle, Weston, Sherbourne, Scituate, Cohasset, Easton, Somerville, Arlington, Dover, Franklin, Wrentham, Hopkinton, Framingham, Marlboro, Foxboro, and Norwood, MA plus Cumberland, Warwick, Cranston, Providence, East Providence, Scituate and Lincoln, RI.