ALL Florida Bee Removal Blog

Haagen Daaz's HelpTheHoneyBees.com site has a new music video featuring the bee-boy-dance-crew. Funny stuff until you catch the message at the end

Want to make $20,000 for 10 days Part-time work? Yes this is real.
ABC's Wife Swap is looking for a beekeeper family for an upcoming episode. We talked to the producer and she says to qualify you'll need to satisfy the following:

1. Bee a bee keeper ( # of hives not important)
2. Bee a married couple
3. Have children at home ( Ages 6-20 ) <>
4. Bee willing to bee on a reality tv show
5. One parent has to be able to travel for 10 days.

My wife Cathy & I were really hoping to at least make an interview. Sounds like fun, but our son is a bit too young.

Send an email with the following,and we'll put you in touch with the producer:

email address
phone number
names of couple
address

I promise this is legit..Richard Martyniak

Yes, apparently it's true, Jesus was having a bit of a problem with Tampa honey bees and needed some help. Enter Jim Durlacher from ALLFloridaBeeRemoval.com's Tampa affiliate, Insect IQ.


Here's what Jim wrote........"Yes, you read that right....I Saved Jesus! He was hanging there, and the bees moved in to make a home." ... The honey bee colony is right there on Jesus' back.


'They just now flew in last week!' That was the response from the persons at the church. Two weeks ago when they held their sunrise service in front of Jesus on the lawn, no one noticed? From what I can make, there were there for about 2-3 months." Here's a closeup of bees with plenty of comb material. We do bee removals routinely, in some strange places, but this is heavenly !!


"Anyway I did my job to help save Jesus from the bees, and now the bees are gone, so is about 20 pounds of honey and comb, and several thousand bees. Lucky no one got stung at their outdoor sunrise service, or may someone did, and they cried 'enough!' Jesus is free of bees!"

There are days when I'm doing bee treatments I feel like I'm being attacked by bee commandos. Honey Bees will "head butt" you when they first feel threatened. The force of hundreds of little bees hitting my veil is quite amazing. And they can release venom while doing this behaviour, so my face gets covered in venom. Good reason to wear eye protection, because venom can cause optic trauma.
Anyway, Here's a little bee game to bemuse you. Aim at your opponent's hive and hold down the mouse button to attack. Click here to open in a separate window at a larger size.

Well, introductions are in order. I'm the goofy lookin' dude in the bee suit below:



My name is Richard Martyniak, and I'm one of the team members here at ALLFloridaBeeRemoval.com. You'll meet the others later. I have a Master's Degree in Urban Entomology from the University of Florida Entomology Dept, where I worked for several years. My specialization is the control of stinging insects. I Performed research, developed courses for online education, and gave plenty of talks to pest control operators, extension personnel and regular folks too. Here I'm doing my education thing again.. I just love teaching people about the wonders of insects !



Tati invited me to perform a live honey bee removal from her family's Orlando Azalea Park home. The bee hive ( colony is really the correct terminology ) was located in a large Oak tree and required the use of a man-lift to get so high up in the tree. Here,I'm showing how to light a smoker. We use smoke to 'calm' bees, so we can relocate them to a hive box.



But I really like working with the girls..( most bees, wasps and ants are female ), especially large colonies high up in trees!
Heading up in the lift:


I'm about 30 feet up in this pic, working the honey bees.


It sure gets hot in bee suit. Replenishing with OJ helps:


We had a successful day, removing and rescuing the aerial honey bee colony. Thanks to Tati for having me out and taking the great pics. Thanks for the Burger and hotdogs too!