Broward County Bee Removal, From the Beach to the Everglades

Most of Broward's land is Everglades, so its 31 cities and towns crowd onto the eastern strip between that edge and the ocean. Beach towers, canal homes, gated tile-roof subdivisions and horse lots sit within one drive, and honey bees get into each differently.

Pick your part of the county below. How the work itself is done lives on our removal services page, and cost on pricing.

Four kinds of Broward property, four bee problems

Coast and Intracoastal. Salt air rusts flashing, screen frames and A/C line covers until a gap opens. Condo towers add balcony planters, rooftop machine rooms and a board wanting insurance paperwork first (high-rise jobs, boats and docks).

Older central streets. Through a cracked sill or pipe hole, a colony can build comb inside hollow concrete block cores; big shade trees offer hollow limbs (walls, trees).

Western planned communities. Tile leaves gaps at eaves and ridges, pool cage beams are hollow aluminum, and the patch has to satisfy an association (roofs, pool cages).

Ranch country. Nests turn up in barn walls, tack rooms and stacks of nursery pots (barns and sheds).

No winter break for a Broward colony

With something nearly always in flower, a wall nest keeps foraging and adding comb through January. Spring brings the most swarms, and a cluster left on a branch or mailbox for a day or two may move into a soffit nearby (swarm removal).

The rainy season runs roughly May through October, and attic heat can soften comb in an abandoned nest until honey stains the ceiling (leaking honey). Hurricane season, June 1 to November 30, leaves stacked shutter panels and storm-split trees for new colonies (shutters).

One crew and one standard in every city

• Live removal only: no spray or poison; colonies go to beekeepers (relocation).
• Nothing left behind: comb, honey and wax all go, and the emptied space is wiped down before its entry is shut (cleanup).
• Paperwork when you need it: a certificate of insurance for a board, manager or business, and for an insurance claim, a photo record backed by an itemized invoice.
• Phones staffed around the clock, with the 24-hour response guarantee applying from the oceanfront to the Everglades edge (emergencies).

Workmanship is warrantied: if bees return where we sealed, so do we. Removing bees within reach of someone standing on the ground (a hanging cluster, or a colony set up in a water valve box) usually costs around $300 to $400. Once comb sits in a second-story wall, or a colony has been settled for a long time and repairs follow, the bill can climb into the thousands, and night or weekend callouts add to it. Details are on the pricing page.

Before the visit: a photo and the gate list

Text a picture of the spot where bees go in, with the floor number or a rough height, and we can give you a price range before anyone drives over. If your community has a guard gate, put us on the list, and tell us who should receive the insurance certificate. Quotes are free and carry no obligation; the online request form works as well.

Smaller Cities and Unincorporated Areas

Smaller places, same service:

• North Lauderdale, single-family streets from a 1970s building boom, beside Margate and Tamarac.
• Lauderdale Lakes, incorporated in 1961, between Lauderhill and Oakland Park.
• West Park, formed in 2005 from Carver Ranches, Lake Forest, Utopia and one more neighborhood on the south county line.
• Pembroke Park, a small town where mobile homes make up much of the housing and bees settle behind skirting.
• Sea Ranch Lakes, a mostly gated oceanfront village with Lauderdale-by-the-Sea to its north and south, and Lazy Lake, a handful of homes inside Wilton Manors.
• Unincorporated pockets of the Broward Municipal Services District: Franklin Park, Roosevelt Gardens, Washington Park and Boulevard Gardens, a cluster beside Fort Lauderdale, plus Broadview Park.

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