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*Fees depend on situation and travel distance.

All names listed are in alphabetical order.


Florida Parishes

Name Phone Number Email/Website Services Offered Servicing Areas
Troy Aarons 225-281-1930
  • Live capture of honeybee swarms and existing colonies from all residential & commercial walls/structures and occasionally trees.
  • Over 10 year's experience at relocating the honeybee
  • New Orleans
  • Hammond
  • Northshore
Emil Albrecht

AA Live Bee Removal
504-475-4520
  • Removal of honeybees, yellow jackets and bumble bees from residential, commercial and industrial structures and trees.
  • Member of Capital Area and Ascension Parish Beekeepers Associations.
  • Insured & Licensed State Registered Beekeeper #14-1630. Serving South Louisiana Since 2009.
  • Free written estimates.
  • South Louisiana
Cecil Alton 225-615-4535 Cecilsmith1973@gmail.com
  • Bee removal and relocation
  • Florida parish
  • Livingston parish
  • Ascension parish
Marcus Azzarello 504-885-3101 http://www.dialonepestcontrol.com
  • Will collect /remove swarms and colonies from walls and structures
  • Metro New Orleans
  • North Shore
  • St Bernard
  • Plaquemine
Louis Babon 985-264-0835
  • Will collect swarms
  • Covington
  • Madisonville
  • Mandeville
Daniel Barbara

Wetland Bee Company

504-224-0246 wetlandbeeco@gmail.com
  • Professional live honeybee removal service. We do this full-time for a living and specialize in difficult structural removals in hard-to-reach areas.
  • Commercial & Residential
  • Licensed and Insured
  • New Orleans & surrounding parishes
Brad Bessetti 985-612-0241 bradbessetti@gmail.com
  • Swarm removal and cut outs
  • Florida parishes
  • Northshore
Troy Bozeman 225-953-2424
  • Will collect swarms (live capture) and remove honeybees, other bees, wasps, and yellow jackets from trees, walls and other structures
  • All parts of Louisiana
Joseph Brady 985-247-5296 josephjaybrady79@yahoo.com
  • Bee removal from structures, trailers, barns, comeerical buildings, ect
  • 15 years experience safely relocating bees
  • all Florida parishes
Amanda Bravender


The Brave Farmer

504-450-2610 thebravefarmers@gmail.com
  • Bee removal
  • Swarm removal
  • Extracting/spinning honey services
  • Northshore
  • Greater New Orleans metropolitan area
Nary Cannon

Cannon Tree Service

985-630-4455 nary_cannon@hotmail.com
  • Can access swarms and hives that most beekeepers cannot reach w/ 65-foot bucket truck
  • St Tammany Parish
Daniel Day 337-842-8705
  • I remove honeybees from: homes, barns, outhouses, electrical boxes, under trailers, etc. I establish all bees removed into hive boxes
  • maybe a fee
  • Located in Lake Charles, will travel all over
Huey DeCoto 985-386-3932
  • Will collect swarms
  • Hammond
Chad Ellinwood 985-320-5643
  • Will collect swarms and remove honeybee colonies in structures
  • St Tammany parish
Pete Eschete 985-863-3055
  • Will collect swarms
  • Pearl River
  • Slidell
Ty Estilette
Bigdogbees@aol.com
  • All parts of Louisiana
Sara Fiorenzo

Michigoddess Apiary

504-666-0574

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Saraj.fiorenzo@gmail.com
  • No cost swarm removals and relocations
  • Partnered with a local residential construction company to do affordable repairs on any cutout/removal damages & complete complicated removals others may have declined.
  • New Orleans area and an hour radius
Troy Galatas 985-960-1722 tagalatas@charter.net
  • Will remove existing colonies from structures (cut out/ trap out) and swarm capture
  • Slidell area & 40 miles
Jerry Galloway 985-516-5040 (C)

985-735-9789 (H)


  • Colony removal and swarm collection
  • Washington & St Tammany parishes
Jason Gauthier 225-264-7012

RiverParishApiaries@gmail.com

RiverParishApiaries.com
  • Live removal of honeybee hives and swarms
  • Free estimates

  • St James
  • St John
  • St Charles
  • Ascension and surrounding parishes
Russell Harris III 985-788-7064
  • Collect swarms
  • East Baton Rouge Parish
  • Florida parishes including St. Tammany and Orleans
Douglas Hicks 337-802-4175 Wbihbees@gmail.com
  • Swarm capture and removal
  • East and West Feliciana parishes
  • Southwest Louisiana
Jules Hillery 985-641-6053
  • Will collect swarms
  • Slidell area
Jeff Horchoff 985-710-0139 (C)

985-892-1800 ext. 1401 (W)

oscelata@gmail.com

jhorchoff@sjasc.edu

  • I am the beekeeper for the monks at St. Joseph Abbey near Covington, La. I do swarm removals and hive removals from properties. All bees are transferred to the many bee yards that the abbey maintains.
  • over 10 years' experience and have removed hundreds of hives and swarms from homes and trailers.

Bob Hughes 985-386-9361
  • Collect swarms
  • Robert
Richard “Ricky”

Hunt

985-750-0074

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harleyhunt200@gmail.com

Stephen Leblanc

Steve’s Bees LLC

225-255-0349 stevesbees225@gmail.com
  • Live structural removals of honeybees, yellow jackets, & bumble bees from residential, commercial, & industrial structures.
  • Commercially insured & state registered

KJ Lodrigue 985-789-1000 kjlodrigue@gmail.com
  • Will collect swarms and remove honeybee colonies
  • Baton Rouge
  • Hammond
  • Slidell
  • Covington
  • New Orleans
  • Amite
Gayle Louque 225-892-3851
  • Ascension Parish

Gary Louque

G&L Bee Removal

225-397-2327
  • Experienced in removal of honeybees (live capture if possible) from residential homes, commercial, industrial, municipal buildings, schools, churches, structures and trees.
  • Get professional service and guaranteed results!
  • Free estimate & education about your problem
  • Baton Rouge & surrounding parishes
Richard Metcalf 337-354-9667
  • We remove swarms, cut outs from all structures.
  • Guaranteed results for all work performed.
  • Located in Hathaway, La
  • Travel statewide
Michael Meek 225-614-0740

  • Denham Springs
  • Walker
  • Baton Rouge
Charles Parker 504-338-7517 (H)

504-338-7517(C)

http://www.parkerwildlifecontrol.com
  • Will remove African honeybees, yellow jackets and bumblebees and colonies from walls and structures
  • Metro New Orleans
  • Baton Rouge
  • Hammond
  • Northshore
Thomas Penton 985-515-9517 thomas_pen@yahoo.com
  • Swarm collection
  • Honeybee removal from walls and structures
  • Washington parish
Dale Peru 985-320-6232
  • Will collect swarms and remove honeybees from walls and structures, live capture

Jason Pittman 225-324-7087


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yellowbayoubees@yahoo.com
  • Baton Rouge
  • Livingston
  • Ascension
  • Avoyelles
Art & Margaret Prell 985-863-3641
  • Collect swarms
  • Pearl River
  • Slidell
John Rimes 225-324-1241 john.rcm@yahoo.com
  • Swarm removal
  • Cutouts free of charge
  • Estimates given to repair what may have been damaged in the removal
  • East Baton Rouge parish
  • Florida parishes
Michael Sigueria 985-236-4479
  • Collect swarms
  • Mandeville
Sunflower Hill Farm LLC 985-517-1614 (C)

985-517-5111

sawarner@hughes.net
  • Collect swarms and remove bees from structures
  • Tangipahoa and surrounding parishes
Robert Taylor

985-386-4647 (H)

985-969-4647 (C)

www.honeybeeremoval.com
  • Collect swarms and remove bees from structures
  • 100 miles from Ponchatoula
Charlie Wagner 504-975-5901 chwag419@gmail.com
  • Swarm and hive removal
  • Baton Rouge
  • Metairie
  • Covington
  • Mandeville
Jason White 225-571-9954
  • Live honeybee and swarm removal from homes, trees, and structures
  • South Central and Florida parishes
Michael Wu 808-256-7037 3013michael@gmail.com
  • Northshore
  • St Bernard
  • Plaquemine
George Zvara 860-235-0190 Constancecadiz@gmail.com
  • Orleans parish
  • Jefferson parish
  • St Tammany parish

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