Humane Live Bee Removal • Licensed & Insured • Serving the Entire Bay Area
Serving the entire Bay Area · Since 1994
Live honeybee removal specialists serving San Francisco, San Jose, San Mateo, and surrounding communities. We relocate bees to local beekeepers and farmers, repair the removal site, and make sure they don't come back. Licensed, insured, and warranty-backed after 30 years.
Licensed & insured · CSLB #905588 · English & Spanish
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Years of Experience
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Licensed & Insured (CSLB #905588)
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Bees Relocated, Not Harmed
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Warranty on Every Job
Education First
Before you book anything, it helps to understand what's actually happening on Bay Area homes. Here's the short version — no jargon, no scare tactics.
When flowers open across the San Francisco Bay Area, honey bee colonies grow fast and split. A yard's blossoms, water, and warmth put a Bay Area property on their map, so scouts start checking nearby cavities.
A swarm is a queen and thousands of workers house-hunting. They cluster on a branch, fence, eave, or wall while scouts search for a dark, protected cavity — often a wall void, attic, chimney, or roof line on a Bay Area home.
Wall voids, attics, chimneys, roof lines, and trees are perfect cavities. Once a swarm moves in, the colony starts building comb and only grows from there — which is why early humane live bee removal is easier and safer.
As soon as you see a swarm or a steady stream of bees entering one crack. Swarming bees are usually not aggressive, and the sooner Bee Free LP addresses the colony, the less material has to be opened, removed, and repaired.
No. Poisoning bees inside a wall leaves comb, honey, and dead insects behind. The wax melts, honey seeps through drywall, and the smell draws rodents, ants, and beetles. Full live colony removal — bees, comb, and honey — is the only permanent fix. Humane live honeybee removal in the Bay Area is how we fix it for good — see the bee and wasp identification guide if you're not sure what you're looking at.
Interactive Identifier
Tap what you're seeing around your Bay Area home. We'll tell you what it likely is, whether it's a danger, and exactly how Bee Free LP handles it.
Golden-brown, fuzzy, and busy around one small entry hole. If you see a steady stream of bees coming and going from the same crack all day, that's a honey bee colony.
Honey bees live in big permanent colonies and build wax comb filled with honey. A colony inside a wall keeps growing, so the sooner it's handled the less material has to be opened up and removed. They're not looking for a fight — they're defending a home.
How Bee Free handles it: We locate the colony, open the structure, remove the bees alive, take out all comb and honey, then clean, seal and repair the site. Bees go to local beekeepers and farmers.
We handle this — get helpWhat We Do
Humane live honeybee removal across the Bay Area, plus pest control and pest exclusion that keep the problem from coming back.
Our specialty across San Francisco, San Jose, San Mateo, and the entire Bay Area. We locate the colony, fully expose the hive — cutting into roof, sheetrock, stucco or siding as needed — remove the bees, comb and honey, then clean, deodorize, sterilize, fill the void and repair the site. One of very few companies with an in-house contractor for this exacting work.
Humane live bee removal in the Bay Area
Full-service residential and commercial pest control across the Bay Area, with chemical-free solutions from bee and wasp removal to rodent control. Licensed, insured, and warranty-backed.
Pest control services in the Bay Area
A preventative, greener integrated pest management approach: screening and sealing the areas pests use to get in. Much of it is tree work — removing colonies, then closing the entry for good on Bay Area properties.
Pest exclusion servicesAbout Bee Free
Bee Free LP has served San Francisco, San Jose, San Mateo, and surrounding communities for over 30 years, specializing in live honeybee extractions and recolonizing bees with local beekeepers and farmers who use them to pollinate food crops. Licensed and insured (CSLB #905588), with a warranty on every job.
We're proud to feature humane removal practices — bees are relocated, not harmed — and we work without pesticides or harmful chemicals. The same licensed crew that opens a Bay Area wall closes it back up.
About Bee Free LP — 30 years in the Bay AreaWhy Bee Free
The oldest bee removal company in the area — over 30 years on Bay Area roofs, walls and trees.
Deep knowledge. We educate and advise, we don't upsell.
Licensed, insured and backed by an in-house contractor (CSLB #905588).
We match competitors' written quotes and double their warranty.
Humane, chemical-free methods — bees go to beekeepers and farmers.
We work with you so the problem doesn't come back.
How It Works
Tell us what you're seeing — a swarm on a branch, buzzing in the wall, wasps by the door. We'll ask a few specific questions.
We identify the colony, find the entry, and explain exactly what's happening and what it will take. No guesswork, no pressure.
We book your appointment, do the live removal, repair the site and seal the entry point so it doesn't happen again.
Reviews
Quick response and great communication by text with Dan. They came out same day on a weekend to check on bees that had moved into my parents' house, and did a live removal that week. Not the cheapest service, but you get what you pay for — professional, quick and clean, including patching and painting the exterior they had to remove to reach the bees. I also loved that they partner with local farmers to relocate the bees as valuable pollinators.
KC S.
San Francisco, CA · Mar 10, 2026
I discovered bees in my attic 24 hours before leaving on vacation and Bee Free responded right away. It turned out to be a hive of about 2,000 yellow jackets that had moved in through an exterior air vent. Dan and Rodrigo got it under control, removed the nest and stabilized things before I left — then came back after I returned to clear the attic and seal the vent securely.
Cindy C.
San Jose, CA · Aug 10, 2026
I found a large wasp nest in the eaves of my balcony and asked my management company to call Bee Free. I got a call right back and a team member came out that same afternoon. He removed the large nest, spotted a second smaller one around the corner and removed that one too. I highly recommend the Bee Free Team.
Trish A.
Sunnyvale, CA · Jul 22, 2026
Had bees in a tough-to-reach spot. Rodrigo returned the space to its previous condition (minus the 1,000+ bees) and made sure bees wouldn't gather there again. Speedy and professional.
Sean G.
San Mateo, CA · Jul 22, 2026
Thousands of bees swarmed my senior in-laws' house the day before Easter. I called 6–7 names off the County Beekeepers list and Dan was the only one to call back — in under 10 minutes. He asked specific questions, correctly diagnosed scouting bees that had brought the queen to a new hive location, came out to inspect, was patient and clear with my elderly in-laws, and promised not to exceed a set price. When the crew hit more honeycomb than expected on the prior job, Dan came over himself at 5pm and worked until 8:30pm rather than push us to the next day — roughly 20,000 bees, double an average swarm. The team finished the live removal the next morning and repaired everything so well you can't tell anything happened.
Jerald R.
San Jose, CA · Apr 29, 2025
For Property Managers
We work with management companies across San Francisco, San Jose, San Mateo, Oakland, and the entire Bay Area — licensed (CSLB #905588), insured, and warranty-backed after 30 years of Bay Area bee work. Quick turnarounds, clean job sites, and paperwork that keeps your owners happy.
Same-day and weekend calls when a tenant is at risk.
CSLB #905588 — certificates on request.
One team across your whole Bay Area portfolio.
Photo documentation and a warranty on every job.
Free quotes, straight answers, and a licensed, insured team that has been relocating honeybees with local beekeepers across San Francisco, San Jose, San Mateo, and the entire Bay Area for over 30 years — warranty on every job.
