To our dispatch line, an emergency means someone is being stung, honey bees are loose indoors, or a work crew has torn a nest open, and (954) 429-5133 is the number to ring, day or night. We rank those calls by risk, stings first, and each one still falls inside our 24-hour response guarantee. Paramedics come before us: dial 911 for anyone with many stings or trouble breathing.
Call Right Away If You See This
- Bees are stinging or chasing people, kids or pets.
- Bees keep appearing inside a room, near a vent, can light or outlet.
- A mower, trimmer, roofer or pressure washer just opened a nest.
- A swarm hangs over a pool deck, front door or school pickup line.
- Someone at home carries an epinephrine pen and bees are near their door.
What to Do Before the Crew Pulls Up
If one person has a pile of stings, or their lips or throat swell, or they wheeze or turn dizzy, the first call goes to 911, not to us.
- Get into a car or building, shirt pulled over your nose and mouth, and shut the doors.
- Skip the pool. Ducking under only buys seconds before you need air.
- Leave the mower where it stopped and bring the dog in; a dog snapping at bees draws more of them.
- Spray nothing. Poison and the hose both enrage a colony, and sprayed bees can no longer go to a beekeeper.
Then text us a photo shot from behind glass so we know which gear to load.
How Emergency Calls Are Ranked
Your place in line depends on who is at risk, not distance. A cul-de-sac near the Sawgrass Expressway and an oceanfront condo on A1A in Fort Lauderdale follow the same order:
- Stinging underway, or bees defending against people, pets or horses.
- Bees loose inside a home, classroom or workplace.
- A torn-open nest beside a doorway, walkway or pool cage.
- A calm swarm resting in the open, which can often wait for daylight.
All four fall under our 24-hour response guarantee; the ranking only sets the order.
Bees still pouring out of a valve box or a lifted tile line?
Halt the job, get people behind a door, and ring (954) 429-5133; a stinging call jumps the queue, weekends and overnight included.
Colonies Hit by Mowers, Trimmers and Roofers
Many calls start with someone else's job. Grass grows fast through the May to October rainy season, so mower decks roll over irrigation valve boxes with colonies inside. Roofers lifting barrel tile expose comb, and in hurricane season tree crews cutting storm limbs split hollow trunks.
Stop work there and tape it off, since each pass of a blade restarts the defense. Comb behind tile or stucco becomes roof or wall bee removal: we seal the entry, and our own contractors handle repairs.
Africanized colonies are established in South Florida and look like gentler bees, so one that boils out and chases people gets a wide berth and full suits. It still leaves alive.
What's Included and What Changes the Price
Part of every job
- Day-and-night phone triage with safety steps
- Thermal scan for hidden comb before anything is opened
- Live capture and relocation to a beekeeper, no spraying
- All comb out, cavity cleaned, entry sealed
- A picture record plus a line-by-line bill your insurer or condo board can file
What moves the price
- Clock and calendar: nights, Saturdays and Sundays carry a premium over a booked weekday slot
- A valve box or shrub versus comb inside a second-story wall
- Colony age, since a nest started weeks ago holds far less comb than one left for months
- Stucco, drywall, tile or soffit repairs once the bees are out
When the colony sits at ground level and comes out easily (a valve box, a low shrub, a swarm reachable from the lawn), expect roughly $300 to $400. Wall or roof comb, second-story access or repairs can push a job into the thousands, and a night or weekend callout adds to either. For a ballpark, shoot the nest from well back and send it to (954) 429-5133; how we price jobs covers the rest.
Compare job types on the pricing page.
From the Phone Call to a Sealed Gap
- Call or text, any timeWe ask who was stung, where the bees are and what disturbed them, then talk you through keeping everyone clear.
- Dispatch by severityStings and bees indoors go first; every other call gets a slot inside our 24-hour response guarantee, and we tell you when.
- Find the combA thermal scan shows where the nest sits in a wall, roof or soffit, so we open only where comb is.
- Rescue, clean, sealBees are boxed alive for a beekeeper, every piece of comb removed, and the hollow scrubbed and shut so it cannot host the next swarm.
Where Urgent Bee Calls Come From
- Fort Lauderdale
Las Olas Boulevard is lined with restaurants and shops, so a swarm settling over a doorway there has customers walking under it all day.
- Davie
Horseback riding is common here, and a tied or stalled horse beside an angry colony cannot flee, so those calls rank with stinging.
- Southwest Ranches
Acre lots, horse ranches and town rules that generally keep out streetlights: a barn nest stirred up after dark gets worked under our own lights.
Questions About 24-Hour Emergency Bee Removal
Someone took a lot of stings. Do we phone paramedics or your crew first?
Paramedics, every time, for many stings, a swollen face or throat, wheezing, or a known sting allergy. They look after the person and we look after the bees, so once help is coming, call (954) 429-5133 and say an ambulance is en route.
Bees keep turning up in one room. What do I do until you arrive?
Shut that room, push a towel along the door gap, turn its lights off and keep pets out. Indoor bees usually trace back to a colony in a wall or ceiling. Brown stains overhead are a clue; see honey leaking through a ceiling.
Our landscaper hit a nest. Can they finish first?
No. Vibration keeps the colony agitated, and a second mower pass usually draws a heavier response than the first. Flag the area, move the crew to another part of the yard, and let us take the colony out alive before work resumes.
Does a cluster of bees on a tree branch justify a night callout?
Usually not. That ball of bees is a swarm pausing while scouts hunt for a new cavity, and it may leave on its own. Nights and weekends cost more, so a weekday visit often makes sense unless it hangs over a pool, playground or entry.
Colony out alive and the gap shut, even when the trouble starts at midnight
Ring (954) 429-5133 from behind a closed door. Overnight or on a holiday weekend, the call lands inside our 24-hour response guarantee, and the colony is never sprayed.