The reason your swarm didn’t transfer is because the bees stay where the queen is. There are two ways to move them into a box (a) sift through the bees by hand and pick out the queen, gently pick her up and place her in the new box; or (b) dump the whole swarm onto the new box! This latter method seems kind of rough but it works surprisingly well!

A lot of people assume we’re some sort of bee haters because of what we do, but that’s really not the case. The founder, David Marder, was a beekeeper before he founded the company. He just got so many calls for bee removal he ended up doing it full time! He/we still keep bees, and several of us are also very involved with the Orange County Beekeepers Assn. I personally am a full time beekeeper working for Dave/Beebusters.

Also it sounds like you drove through a moving migratory swarm. It wouldn’t have been hanging out in the middle of the street — they move at about the pace of a stiff walk until they land somewhere.

If you ever want to talk bees (even / including if you’re standing in front of a hive and want to ask how to make them go in) or want to visit a bee yard, give us a call at — okay this thing keeps discarding my comment as spam, maybe the phone number is making it think its spam? so comment back I guess )=

Great episode! You guys have great chemistry. Justin has a nice wit while Rachael has a great voice. The song of the ‘week’ or what not was excellent” kind of like a Hawaiian Nick Cave! Very cool!