El Mar Drive and the beach portals
The beachside street runs between the Pine Avenue and Palm Avenue portals, past El Prado Park. Corroded eave vents on the buildings along it are the usual entry; dripping portal showers draw foragers.
Short answer
From the El Mar Drive oceanfront west to Terra Mar Island, honey bees in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea buildings leave alive, bound for a beekeeper. The thermal camera finds the warm comb before any stucco is opened; every piece is cut away and our own contractors close the hole. Quotes cost nothing: ring (954) 429-5133 or text a shot of the opening.
Lauderdale-by-the-Sea at a glance
- Kept low on purpose
- Height limits date to 1973 and still keep the old town low.
- Favorite bee entries
- Salt-pitted eave vents, shutter housings, flat-roof parapets and hollow motel walls.
- Empty months
- Winter visitors nearly double the population; many seasonal units sit closed all summer.
Lauderdale-by-the-Sea sits on a narrow barrier island between the Atlantic and the Intracoastal, crossed in town by one drawbridge at Commercial Boulevard. That scale shapes our live bee removal: short ladders, shared walls, absent owners, little curb space. Other towns are on the Broward service map.
Low roofs, salt air and mid-century motels
The original town is a mix of low condo buildings, small motels, older cottages and mid-century modern hotels with flat roofs and long overhangs.
Salt spray rusts the soffit vents in those overhangs; one colony can run comb down a whole eave. Our soffit and eave removal opens only the bay the thermal camera lights up. On condos, check shutter boxes and parapets (condo removal, flat-roof work, storm shutters).
How bees get in, corner by corner
Commercial Boulevard and the pier
The town centers on A1A and Commercial Boulevard, with Anglin's Fishing Pier, named for first mayor Melvin Anglin, at the east end. Shops and restaurants line the boulevard; commercial jobs there are timed around opening hours.
Bel Air and Terra Mar Island
Both arrived in the 2001 annexation that roughly doubled the town. Terra Mar lies west of A1A toward the Intracoastal, where a boat or dock box can hide a colony (boat and dock removal).
Sea Ranch Lakes
A separate, mostly gated village on A1A that Lauderdale-by-the-Sea wraps around to the north and south, with a public shopping plaza. Its private lakes give foragers water. We cover it; ask the gate to expect our truck.
Closed-up units and absent owners
A spring swarm in a closed unit's shutter housing can build for months before a neighbor or cleaner notices. Whoever is there can text us a photo; we handle the owner remotely.
Absent owners get dated photos and an itemized bill for their insurer, plus honeycomb cleanup if the hive sat long. Hotels and rental hosts can request a COI (commercial service).
Humming behind a closed unit's shutters?
A neighbor's phone shot of the gap is all we need to quote a range.
Parking and paperwork
Town meters are enforced around the clock, public lots are small, and Bougainvilla Drive south of Commercial Boulevard restricts overnight parking, so mention any guest space. Condo boards typically want our insurance certificate before work starts; condo and HOA rules explains who approves what.
Most-Requested Services in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea
- Condo & High-Rise Bee Removal
Walk-up and mid-rise condos fill much of the town; shutter housings and balcony voids are common entries.
- Soffit & Eave Bee Removal
Salt air corrodes eave vents and fascia on motels and cottages, giving scouts an easy way in.
- HOA & Commercial Bee Removal
Hotels, motels and boulevard shops need an insured crew, a COI and work timed around guests.
- Roof & Attic Bee Removal
Flat roofs behind parapets hide gaps colonies use and owners rarely see.
- Honeycomb Removal & Cleanup
Colonies in shut seasonal units leave comb and honey that must also come out.
Close by, on the island and across the bridge
- Bee removal in Pompano Beach
- Bee removal in Fort Lauderdale
- Bee removal in Oakland Park
- Fort Lauderdale waterfront homes
Lauderdale-by-the-Sea Bee Removal Questions
Bees are entering our rental's eave and guests arrive this weekend. Can you help?
Don't wait for checkout day: phone or text a photo once you spot them. The 24-hour response guarantee reaches every block of town, and a weekday slot costs less than a weekend callout. The owner gets dated photos of the comb coming out and the cavity being cleaned and sealed.
Bees are in the shutter box of our condo unit. Is that the association's call or mine?
Talk to the manager before anyone climbs. Outer walls, roofs and shutters are often common elements, which puts the decision with the board, and it will usually want our certificate of insurance before the first ladder goes up. With owner and manager both looped in, we schedule around each.
Why does a motel soffit cost more than bees in our meter box?
Reach and rebuilding. A hedge swarm, or a colony tucked in a meter or valve box, is worked from the ground and usually comes in between $300 and $400. Comb running along a motel soffit, under a flat roof or into an upstairs wall means opening and rebuilding, so the total can climb into the thousands. After-dark or weekend calls raise either kind (how we price).
Honey bees keep landing at our beach shower. Is there a hive nearby?
Not necessarily. Foragers return to the same wet spot every day (why bees visit water). Bees streaming in and out of a crack, vent or shutter box mean a colony, possibly with Africanized genes, so keep people back and send us a picture.
From El Mar Drive to Terra Mar, one crew
The company that lifts the colony out also rebuilds the eave behind it.