A Lauderhill colony often sits in an attic or wall that two or more villa or condo owners share, so a thermal scan locates the comb before anyone cuts. Nothing gets sprayed. The bees ride to a beekeeper alive, the cavity is scraped free of comb, cleaned and closed, and the stucco or drywall is restored by our own licensed contractors. Inverrary, the northwest section and every street between sit inside our 24-hour response guarantee; the line is (954) 429-5133.
Lauderhill began as builder Herbert Sadkin's development of off-the-shelf house designs and incorporated in 1959. After the Inverrary Country Club opened in 1970, condos, villas and townhomes filled in around it, and for years the city was mostly retirees and seasonal owners.
So the wall holding a colony is often shared, and opening it is the association's call. The colony work is under live honey bee removal.
In a villa row or low-rise condo, one attic often runs over several units. Bees entering at one roof line may build comb above a neighbor's ceiling, so the thermal scan checks both sides of the unit line first.
Managers handle entry and board rules on hours and parking. Honey staining drywall? Read leaking honey; for who pays, association bee rules; for the job, condo removal.
North of Oakland Park Boulevard and east of University Drive, Inverrary surrounds a club whose two courses were Robert Trent Jones Sr. designs, and Jackie Gleason built his final home there. Play stopped in 2020, so a colony in a fairway tree can go unnoticed for months.
Sadkin's original homes have had decades to collect enclosed carports, back rooms and newer roofs. Each joint between old and new construction is a possible doorway for scouts; see bees inside a wall.
This part of the city filled with single-family homes in the late 1970s. After years of storms and reroofs, a loose soffit panel or soft fascia board is where scouts probe first; see bees in a roof.
This county park at State Road 7 and Sunrise Boulevard holds a 2007 cricket stadium, the first in the country approved by the International Cricket Council to host international matches. A swarm on a nearby fence or car is worth a quick photo.
Plenty of trouble starts at ankle height. Water meter and irrigation valve boxes sunk into older swales give a young colony a dark, dry cavity, and lawn crews tend to find it the hard way.
A swale box, or a swarm hanging low in somebody's hedge, is the cheap end of our work: expect $300 to $400 (meter box removal, pricing). If bees boil out when the lid shifts, back off: South Florida has Africanized colonies.
Bees between your unit and the neighbor's?
Photograph the entry hole from the walkway, text it to (954) 429-5133, and you will have a price range to show your manager.
Our own licensed roofers, painters and contractors close every opening. On older Inverrary condos and northwest-section houses, a patch must blend into much-repainted stucco and roof tile that may be out of production.
Photos and an itemized invoice give owner, association and insurer one record (insurance and bee damage). Bees showing up again at a seal we made bring the crew back.
Villa rows and condo buildings around Inverrary put colonies in shared attics and common walls.
Associations and landlords need insurance certificates and paperwork for their files.
Water meter and irrigation valve boxes in older swales are a common ground-level call.
Additions on early houses leave seams where scouts get into block and frame walls.
Trees along Inverrary's shuttered fairways and in back yards hold open-air and hollow-trunk colonies.
A spring cluster on a chain-link fence or a car in a condo lot is still scouting for a cavity.
That answer lives in your association's documents. Exterior walls and roofs are often common elements the association maintains, while a unit's interior is the owner's. Check with your manager, read our condo and HOA guide, and count on a certificate of insurance from us whichever side is paying.
Possibly. Open land with big trees gives wild colonies room, and their spring swarms hunt for cavities nearby, such as soffits on homes along the edge. Sealing every gap after soffit and eave removal keeps the next swarm from moving in.
No. The colony is worked out around the meter and pipes, which stay untouched, and the box is cleaned afterward so leftover scent does not pull in the next swarm. Most of these are ground-level jobs. Leave the lid shut, photograph the box and the swale around it, and send the picture by text; a price range comes back.
Match-day traffic thickens on the roads around the park, so the crew picks another route, and your address stays inside our 24-hour response guarantee either way. Someone picks up the phone 24/7, and a household being stung is handled ahead of calm colonies. Quiet bees with nobody at risk can wait for a scheduled weekday visit, which is priced below a night or weekend callout. Book at (954) 429-5133.
From a swale box to a shared villa attic
One number, (954) 429-5133, handles the Lauderhill bees, the seal and the stucco patch, and the quote costs nothing.
Phone or text day or night. We price it, move the colony out alive, and close the gap with our own licensed contractors.
