ABOUT ME AND BEE REMOVALS
I am a certified MASTER BEEKEEPER through the University of Florida (Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences). It took over three years of intensive learning about honey bees, bee biology, bee management and beekeeping practices, including IPM, and covered bee toxicology, Africanized bees, pest control, practical training and all sorts of bee related issues. I am a registered beekeeper, I have several years experience in live bee removals (although I do not do any myself but refer a wonderful bee removal specialist, Brian Schafer – his details are below), and and I give educational workshops at various Botanical Gardens in south Florida about honey bees, beekeeping, honey (including honey tastings). I am a staunch advocate and voice for our precious friends. They get treated so badly, struggle to find suitable habitats to build their nests, and are so vital to our own survival, pollinating one third of our food crops. To contact me, please email me at [email protected] or TEXT ME (no calls please) at (9 5 4) 6 3 7 – 3 1 5 3.
I’m very proud to be a Master Beekeeper, but don’t often talk about it – (modesty) – and lots of people don’t even know this about me.
I fell in love with bees when someone back in 2018 asked me if I wanted to host a beehive in my garden (he said he would manage the bees, do inspections etc.). I jumped at the opportunity and pretty soon caught “bee-fever” – falling madly and passionately in love with them. This person started a bee-removal organization focusing on urban beekeeping and bee removals, and as his most important (i.e. only) volunteer for a long time, I managed his website, assisted with bee removals, did the photography and videos, fund raising, focused on raising awareness of the plight of the honey bee, attended markets and fairs selling their honey and raising more bee awareness.
I established an apiary in my garden that received the bee removals he did – I’d watch over them for a month, making sure everything was good, queen was laying etc., and then he’d move them to one of his bee yards. In 2022, for various reasons, I left and decided to branch out on my own – not doing removals, but just keeping the apiary myself and inspecting the bees. I renamed my apiary “The Beemuda Triangle” as I always seem to notice strange and unusual things there!
Realizing there was so much to learn still, that’s when I decided to go for the Master Beekeeping certification through IFAS (University of Florida), a three-year program, and it was one of the best things I ever did. While I was doing it, I was lucky enough to meet Brian (mentioned above) who is now my “go to” guy for bee removals (commercial and residential) and he is just amazing. I call him Super Bee Man. He’s helped me out with my bees from time to time, I was fortunate enough that he allowed me to volunteer with him (for my specialization to complete my Master Beekeeper class I decided to focus on bee removals) – helping him do a few pretty wild (Africanized) bee removals – experience that I really appreciated. I’ll always be grateful to him for that! I REALLY love my bees, and hopefully people realize that they pollinate one third of our crops, we need them desperately, and that they need to be removed alive (not exterminated).
Thank you to all our precious honey bees for working so hard, with very little reward. We really appreciate you.
ABOUT BRIAN, THE BEST BEE REMOVAL SPECIALIST I KNOW
Got a bee problem and want a live bee removal? Please DON’T EXTERMINATE – bees are SO important to our own survival.
PLEASE CONTACT BRIAN SCHAFER. With YEARS of experience, Brian has a massive apiary in Broward County where he rehomes all his removals – not only that, he is specially trained to work with Africanized bees. If you have an Africanized swarm, he is the one to call. The great news is that you do not have to kill Africanized bees: you MUST get them removed IMMEDIATELY, that is absolutely CRITICAL – and then Brian will replace the Africanized queen with a gentle (most likely Carniolan) queen, and within two months, once all the current Africanized worker bees die off, the new worker bees will be sweet and gentle and the colony will be lovely and docile.
Call or text Brian: ( 9 5 4 ) 6 1 2 – 3 6 6 2
tell him Joanna sent you!
I’m really modest about my Master Beekeeping certification.
Jokes aside, I’m really proud of this achievement, even though I still feel like I know next to nothing about these amazing creatures, even though they’ve been around for millions and millions of years, and I’ve been working with them and studying them since 2018.
And my modest little apiary, The Beemuda Triangle, below.
