If you think you have a honey bee swarm, do not panic! This is not a dangerous situation.

Please text (preferred) or call Larry Fritz at 410-804-7652 ASAP.

Please include:

• • • A picture of the swarm, if possible

    • The location of the swarm (your address)

    • The height of the swarm (for example: in a tree, in a bush, above a garage)

    • The approximate size (for example: softball, football or basketball)

Larry will respond and send the closest beekeeper available to help.

More Information About Swarming:

Identifying honey bees: 

Honey bees are golden, brown, or even gray in appearance and they are hairy with stripes on their abdomen. Yellow Jackets are sometimes mistaken for honeybees; yellow jackets are yellow with yellow legs, and have no hair.

Swarms are the natural way colonies of honey bees reproduce. Bees are very gentle at this time and even though you may feel threatened, bees almost never sting during the swarming process. Please do not spray them with pesticides or attempt to harm them in any way; honey bees are valuable pollinators and they are necessary to ensure our food supply. Many local beekeepers will remove them for free and give them a good home. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE! Do not wait to call a beekeeper as the swarm may leave on its own very soon.

Swarming is honey bee colonies' natural means of reproduction; in the process of swarming, the original single colony reproduces into two separate colonies. The reproduction swarm usually settles a short distance away from the parent colony; this is usually a spring occurrence, but swarms can happen anytime during warm weather. Honey Bee swarms are a large brown mass and can be located on a tree branch, a bush, the side of a building, a car, or just about any place else.