In Parkland a honey bee colony might be living in a tack room on an acre lot or a pool cage beam behind a guard gate, and either way it leaves alive for a beekeeper's apiary. A thermal camera reads the tile or wall before the first cut, so the opening is chosen rather than guessed. Pulling every comb, cleaning the cavity and sealing it is our job, and so is the patch, which our own roofers and painters blend into the existing tile and paint. Phone (954) 429-5133 at 2 a.m. or at noon and a person answers; the 24-hour response guarantee applies to every Parkland call.
Parkland started as cattle and horse country. In the late 1950s cattle farmer Bruce Blount parceled his land as BBB Ranches, the town incorporated in 1963, and for its first ten years horses outnumbered residents. Gated developments like Heron Bay and Parkland Isles arrived in the mid-1990s and early 2000s.
Honey bees find homes in both worlds, so our live removal crews plan for barns on acre lots and big tile roofs behind the gates.
Many Parkland houses are big two-story designs with several hips, valleys and sometimes an entry tower. Every cracked ridge joint or missing bird stop is a dry opening above the underlayment (roof removal). Off the roof, colonies favor features smaller homes lack:
The thermal camera picks the tile course or island face to open, so one clean cut replaces several guesses.
Horse-country streets around Ranch Road and Trotters Lane, beside the Equestrian Center at Temple Park. Big lots hold houses, barns, paddocks and workshops, and the roadside drainage ditches hold water foragers visit. Outbuildings are where colonies turn up (barn removal).
One of the older neighborhoods, off Holmberg Road near State Road 7, where some streets end by the Sawgrass Expressway. Acre-plus lots mix 1970s ranch houses with new custom builds, and barns and workshops offer quiet walls.
A large guard-gated master plan straddling the Coral Springs line, with townhomes through estates. Get our crew on the gate list first; lake-facing pool cages and tile eaves get checked early.
Guard-gated and finished in the early 2000s, with Mediterranean-style homes set along a chain of lakes and waterways. Roofs of that age often show loose ridge tile and torn soffit screens (soffit removal).
A private gated club community wrapped around an 18-hole golf course, with Mediterranean-style stucco homes under tile roofs. Any patch on those long stucco walls needs to vanish into the existing color.
A Lennar-built community on the city's north edge, laid out on peninsulas reaching into a big lake. Nearly every lot touches water, so bees at the pool steps are normal and do not always mean a nest (how to tell).
Many homes here sit behind a staffed gate, so put our company name on the guest list and ask whether the association wants a certificate of insurance. We email it ahead.
Removing bees rarely needs sign-off, but the tile, stucco and paint repair often does. If approval lags, we take the colony and fit a temporary seal, and our roofers and painters finish later. Boards get photos and an itemized invoice (HOA bee rules, HOA and commercial removal).
Colony in the barn, roof or summer kitchen?
A phone snapshot of the barn eave or grill island, texted to (954) 429-5133, is enough for us to work out a likely range.
Horse country is still here: the city runs the Equestrian Center at Temple Park on Ranch Road, and Liberty Park nearby has a horse corral. Barns, tack rooms and workshops on the ranch lots have walls nobody opens for months.
Colonies settle in board-and-batten walls, eaves over hay storage, hollow posts and idle horse trailers. We never spray near livestock or feed, and horses should be moved well clear before a wall is opened. Every comb leaves with us so ants and wax moths do not follow (shed, barn and stable removal).
The city motto is "Environmentally Proud." Everglades land runs along the west side, and the Doris Davis Forman preserve on Parkside Drive protects 20 acres of pine woods, oak hammock and cypress wetland.
Old trees in woods like that hold the hollows wild colonies use. When they swarm in spring, scouts search nearby for a dry cavity, and on a preserve-backed lot that may be your roof or gate column. A cluster on a branch is a swarm; steady traffic into a trunk in your yard is a tree colony.
Several newer communities were drawn around big water, MiraLago's lake peninsulas among them. Screened pools on those lots draw a steady line of water-collecting foragers.
Actual colonies hide in hollow cage beams, the gutter the cage fastens to, outdoor cabinetry under the screen and heater housings. Pool cage and equipment removal explains how a beam is opened and closed without weakening the frame.
On a Parkland lot the low end runs $300 to $400: picture a swarm clinging to a driveway hedge, or a colony in an irrigation valve box you can reach from the lawn. Second-story tile, a grill island, a barn wall or a season-old colony can climb into the thousands, mostly for the matched repair.
Expect a higher bill for a late-evening or weekend trip to a Parkland gate than for a weekday job set up in advance. The pricing page breaks down what moves a number, the insurance guide covers claims, and a photo by text or a free quote request gets a figure for your own property. The crew handling Parkland also covers neighboring Coral Springs, Coconut Creek and Deerfield Beach.
Barns, tack rooms and workshops on the ranch lots and in Pine Tree Estates give swarms quiet, rarely opened walls.
Large two-story tile roofs with many hips and ridges offer more cracked mortar and missing bird stops.
Lake lots in MiraLago and the other water-centered communities pair big screened pools with steady forager traffic.
Guard-gated associations want insurance certificates, photos and repairs that match approved tile and paint.
Preserve edges, mature oaks and old pines hold natural hollows that wild colonies occupy.
Spring swarms leaving preserve trees land on gate columns, mailboxes and paddock fences.
Usually not. The committee cares about the finished look, mostly matching tile and the approved paint color, rather than the bees leaving. The crew can take the colony out, clean the cavity and close it with a temporary seal, then return for the permanent repair once approval comes through. Photos and an itemized invoice give the committee something concrete to look over.
Yes. We are licensed and insured and will email a COI to your manager or gate staff before the visit. Add our name to the guest list as well, and mention any gate rules about trailers or the lift a tall house may need.
Move them to a paddock well away from the barn before we arrive, and keep dogs inside. Nothing is sprayed, so feed and water stay clean, but opening a wall stirs the colony. Once the gap is closed, the barn is usable again.
Not into the gap we closed. That seal falls under our workmanship warranty, and if bees settle in the same spot again, the crew returns to handle it. The woods behind you still send out swarms every spring, and those probe every other crack on the house, so ask the crew to walk the roofline with you and flag weak spots.
Not necessarily. Open water this size pulls thirsty foragers from well beyond your lot. A nest looks like a steady stream into one fixed doorway, such as a beam end cap, a gap at the cage gutter or the heater cabinet, while bees spread along the waterline are only drinking. If you cannot tell which you have, text us a picture of the spot.
Usually not. A clump of bees on a gate is a colony in transit, waiting while its scouts pick a cavity, so it is rarely aggressive and many move on after a night or two. Hold kids, dogs and horses at a distance meanwhile. Africanized honey bees have a foothold in South Florida, so treat any cluster that turns defensive with care: a rider or child stung many times over, or anyone whose face or throat swells, needs 911 ahead of us.
Bees gone, opening sealed, finish matched
Behind a guard gate or down a ranch driveway, the quote is free and binds you to nothing; phone or text (954) 429-5133 to get it.
Phone or text day or night. We price it, move the colony out alive, and close the gap with our own licensed contractors.
