Bees in a common area or on a business property come out alive, scheduled around the board, the gate and the tenants. Your manager gets our COI first. We locate the comb with a thermal camera, take all of it out, and our trades close the opening. Text a photo of the monument, sign or vent and the range comes back by text.
Signs it's a common-area or business colony
- Bees going into the entry monument through a wiring hole or behind the letters.
- Steady traffic at a guardhouse or clubhouse soffit vent.
- Comb under an irrigation valve box or backflow cover.
- Bees at a light pole base, sign cabinet or roll-up door housing.
- Complaints of bees at a shared doorway, playground or dumpster corral.
Common-area spots that draw a colony
Entry monuments are prime spots: block and stucco, with uplight wiring holes and gaps behind raised letters that open into hollow cores. Guardhouses and clubhouses get colonies too, often through a bent soffit vent.
On the grounds, colonies fill irrigation valve boxes, backflow covers, meter boxes, light poles missing their base plate and uncapped vinyl fence posts. Comb in a pole often hangs higher than people expect, so we scan before cutting.
Storefronts, restaurants, warehouses and campuses
Retail strips offer parapets, sign cabinets and the raceways behind channel letters. At restaurants, foragers chase soda syrup by the back door while the nest sits in a nearby wall or sign. Warehouses bring roll-up door coil housings and pallets left against block walls. Office parks have monument signs and palm-edged ponds, and colonies up in the palms are a job of their own.
Churches, schools and day care grounds (bell towers, portable classroom skirting, play sets) are worked while empty. Any colony that charges passersby gets taped off before work starts, because Africanized honey bees are established here.
Monument, sign cabinet or clubhouse vent full of bees?
Text the property address with one close photo and one from the parking lot.
Paperwork for boards, owners and adjusters
The certificate of insurance can list the association, management company or landlord as certificate holder, and it travels with a written scope and price range. We're licensed and insured; many offices want that COI before granting gate access.
For HOAs, Florida's Chapter 720 requires written service contracts and sets a bidding rule for large ones (see the FAQ below). Not sure if the association or a single owner is responsible for the wall in question? That split is what our guide to condo and HOA bee rules untangles. Stage photos and an itemized invoice close the file and can back an insurance claim.
Scheduling around gates, stores and residents
A colony that only commutes in and out of a monument or sign can wait for a booked weekday visit, since night and weekend callouts are billed higher. Bees stinging people at a pool gate move to the front of the line (see emergency removal).
Repairs stay with our own licensed trades, so the manager isn't chasing a second vendor. Towers add steps; see condo and high-rise removal.
What's Included and What Changes the Price
Part of every job
- Certificate of insurance sent before the visit
- Thermal scan of the monument, soffit, pole or wall
- Bees taken alive to a beekeeper's apiary
- Every comb removed, cavity cleaned, entry sealed
- Stucco, roofing or paint repair by our own trades
- Stage photos and an itemized invoice
What moves the price
- Height: a valve box at grade versus a pole head
- How long the comb has been growing inside
- More than one colony on the same property
- Repair scope: a stucco patch on a monument versus a reroofed clubhouse section
- Night or weekend emergency visits, at a higher rate
A swarm on a hedge by the pool gate, or a colony in a valve box, usually runs $300 to $400. Comb inside a monument, clubhouse soffit, light pole or warehouse wall, counting the repair, can run into the thousands. With a board meeting coming up, text photos now so a range makes the agenda, and see how commercial jobs get priced on our pricing page.
Compare job types on the pricing page.
From the first photo to the board's file
- Photos and a price rangeThe manager, owner or tenant texts photos and gets back a price range plus a written scope the board can approve.
- Insurance and accessThe COI goes out by email. We confirm gate entry, business hours, irrigation shutoff and who should get a heads-up.
- Find the comb, move the beesThe thermal camera keeps the opening small. From there the colony is boxed live and handed off to a beekeeper's apiary, the leg our honey bee relocation page walks through.
- Clean, seal and repairEvery comb and the honey residue come out, the entry is sealed, and our contractors, roofers or painters finish the surface.
- Close out the fileStage-by-stage photos and an itemized invoice go to the manager for the association or owner's vendor file. Should bees reoccupy a spot we sealed, the crew comes back out.
Where this work comes up in Broward
- Sunrise
Sawgrass Mills, the 612-acre Sawgrass International Corporate Park and large condo communities put landlords, office managers and boards in one city.
- Pompano Beach
Warehouses in the Andrews Industrial District and the condo associations on the Pompano Beach side of Palm Aire bring dock walls and golf-course condo grounds.
- Davie
Horse properties, Western-style buildings, college campuses and gated neighborhoods bring barns, board fences, campus grounds and gatehouses.
Questions About HOA & Commercial Bee Removal
Can you name our association on the COI?
Yes. Send the exact name of the association, management company or landlord for the certificate holder line, plus the manager's email. The COI goes out with the written quote, so the vendor file is complete before we reach the gate.
Can you start before the plaza opens or after the clubhouse empties?
Often, yes, when the job is planned rather than an emergency. Dark storefronts and a locked clubhouse mean fewer shoppers and residents walking past, so the taped-off zone stays small. Mention opening hours and anything on the community calendar when you text the photos.
Does the board need to vote first?
Your governing documents decide. For an HOA, Chapter 720 wants service contracts in writing and competitive bids when one tops 10 percent of the annual budget, reserves included, but does not limit emergency purchases. Your manager or association attorney has the final word.
Bees in a tenant's sign: landlord or tenant?
Whoever controls that sign or wall, which the lease usually spells out. Either side can text photos, and the quote goes to whoever approves the work. If customers walk under it, block the doorway and call (954) 429-5133.
One company from the gate to the final coat of paint
Put (954) 429-5133 on the vendor list: free quotes, a phone picked up 24/7 and our 24-hour response guarantee.