Welcome back friends to the next episode of live honeybee removals with Yappy Beeman.

In this episode I travel to Birmingham, Alabama (Roll Tide) to remove a huge bee infestation from a house that had been there for a few years. The homeowner had bees previously in almost the same spot a few years earlier. This time the bees thought they had found a harder spot to get to by a remover and had done very well since their arrival. I calculated that we had removed about 3 gallons of honey and over 25,000+ honey bees in this colony .
Generally the bees in my area are fairly docile. Weather issues the few days before this were not as favorable as I would have liked. That sometimes causes the bees to get a little testy with me. After putting a little smoke to them they still didn't really care that I was relocating them to a better home. They stayed defensive through most of the removal. I took about 15 stings and the first one gave me a Yappy eye for the rest of the day. But in the end it didn't hamper my skills of finding their queen bee and catching her. I'm very critical to wanting to see her during the job. If I know that I have her, I know that there isn't a pocket of bees hiding somewhere to rebuild after I leave. You can see such an example toward the end of the video where the queen ran behind a floor joist and many of here bees followed her. however, she couldn't hide from The Yappy Beeman and my experience with bees.

I hope you enjoy this little bit of fun. I enjoy your feedback in the comments and thank you for taking the time to check out my channel. Until the next time, enjoy the show.

Yappy Beeman is a professional bee remover performing live honey bee removals in Alabama as "Alabama Bee Rescue" and relocates them to apiaries away from residential areas so they can rebuild and thrive as a honey bee colony producing honey. Yappy is an Alabama Beekeepers association member that has performed over 1000 live bee removals. Yappy with the help of his great friends Jpthebeeman, 628 Dirtrooster bees, Jeff Horchoff and many others, I have learned many skills to remove bee swarms and honey bee colonies safely for the bees and home owners alike.

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Here is a little bee educational material for ya.
Africanized honey bees (known colloquially as "killer bees") are hybrids between European stock and the East African lowland subspecies A. m. scutellata; they are often more aggressive than European honey bees and do not create as much of a honey surplus, but are more resistant to disease and are better foragers.[23] Accidentally released from quarantine in Brazil, they have spread to North America and constitute a pest in some regions. However, these strains do not overwinter well, so they are not often found in the colder, more northern parts of North America. The original breeding experiment for which the East African lowland honey bees were brought to Brazil in the first place has continued (though not as originally intended). Novel hybrid strains of domestic and re-domesticated Africanized honey bees combine high resilience to tropical conditions and good yields. They are popular among beekeepers in Brazil.
Honey bees appear to have their center of origin in South and Southeast Asia (including the Philippines), as all the extant species except Apis mellifera are native to that region. Notably, living representatives of the earliest lineages to diverge (Apis florea and Apis andreniformis) have their center of origin there.[7]

The first Apis bees appear in the fossil record at the Eocene-Oligocene boundary (34 mya), in European deposits. The origin of these prehistoric honey bees does not necessarily indicate Europe as the place of origin of the genus, only that the bees were present in Europe by that time. Few fossil deposits are known from South Asia, the suspected region of honey bee origin, and fewer still have been thoroughly studied.

No Apis species existed in the New World during human times before the introduction of A. mellifera by Europeans. Only one fossil species is documented from the New World, Apis nearctica, known from a single 14 million-year-old specimen from Nevada.[8]

The close relatives of modern honey bees – e.g., bumblebees and stingless bees – are also social to some degree, and social behavior seems a plesiomorphic trait that predates the origin of the genus. Among the extant members of Apis, the more basal species make single, exposed combs, while the more recently evolved species nest in cavities and have multiple combs, which has greatly facilitated their domestication.