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Beehive Removal Victoria | Established Hives Cut Out Properly
A hive that has lived in your roof, wall or tree for months? Our beehive removal Victoria team treats it, cuts every comb out and seals up. Call 0435 073 966.
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Bee hive removal prices
A settled colony comes with wax and stored honey, so the job is a cut out. Starting prices below include GST.
Swarm in the open
from$149
- Cluster on a branch, post, fence or eave
- Treated and bagged in one short visit
- Nearby vents checked for scouts
- Advice on closing likely gaps
- Price confirmed on the call
Colony cut out
from$495
- Colony treated where it enters
- Wall, eave or roof opened over the comb
- Every comb and all the honey out
- Cavity cleaned, entry closed
- Twelve months of cover on the seal
Chimney, height or commercial
from$895
- Flues, gables and two storey walls
- Big, long settled colonies
- Shops, farms, schools and strata
- Staged plan agreed with you
- Written scope before day one
Worth knowing
- Making good plaster or cladding quoted on its own, only with your go ahead
- The return trip for the cut out already inside the colony price
- Outside metro Melbourne any travel is in the price you agree to
If opening up reveals a much bigger hive than expected, we stop and price it before carrying on.
What is involved in bee colony removal?
Reviewed by the Wasp Control Victoria team
A hive that has settled in is a whole working colony: a queen, many thousands of workers, brood in the cells and a store of honey, all fixed to wax sheets inside a cavity. Taking it out properly means handling every one of those, not only the bees at the doorway.
First the colony is treated at its entrance and left a day for the foragers to spread the product. On the return trip we open the lining, soffit, roof sheet or hollow over the wax, lift the sheets out, bag the wax and honey, scrape the space clean and close it.
Why go to that trouble? Without bees fanning it, the wax softens in a Victorian summer, honey soaks into timber and plaster, ants and wax moth move in, and the smell advertises a ready home to every passing swarm.
Reference: Agriculture Victoria guidance on honey bees in buildings.
| Standard cut out | From $495 inc GST |
|---|---|
| Flues, heights, huge hives | From $895 inc GST |
| Trips | Two in most cases |
| Wax sheets | Lifted out by hand |
| Stored honey | Bagged, not reusable |
| The space | Scraped and closed |
| Cover | A year on the closed gap |
| Approach | Treated, then removed |
Looking for beekeeper hive removal?
Plenty of people type beekeeper removal, or beekeeper removal near me, the day they discover a hive, but we are not beekeepers. Here is where we fit.
What we do
Pest control. For bee hive removal victoria wide, that means the colony is treated and the hive is taken out in full. We are upfront that we do not keep bees or shift hives elsewhere.
Who else to ask
A registered beekeeper, rather than a pest controller, is worth a call if a small swarm is sitting low and out in the open. A hive fixed inside your house is building work.
Which part gets opened
Whichever of plaster, cladding, soffit or roof sheet reaches the wax with the least fuss. You approve the spot before a saw comes out.
Making good afterwards
Minor openings we patch ourselves. Bigger plaster or cladding repairs get their own price, or your own trade can finish them.
How a bee hive grows inside a house
The longer a colony stays, the more wax and honey there is to remove. This is roughly how it builds up in a Victorian home.
- 1First weeks: a new colony builds a few hand sized sheets of wax near the entry.
- 2First summer: sheets hang the full height of the stud bay and honey is being stored.
- 3Second year: the wax spreads sideways into neighbouring bays or along the ceiling.
- 4Left longer: old comb darkens, drips in hot weather and the colony may swarm from the same spot each spring.
Bee hive removal step by step
From the first look to a sealed, empty cavity.
Find the comb
Flight line, warm spots and staining pinpoint the hive.
Treat the colony
Registered product at the entrance late in the day.
Open over the comb
The smallest opening that reaches it all.
Remove every sheet
Honeycomb and honey bagged, the cavity scraped clean.
Close and cover
Entry sealed, twelve month cover recorded.
- Applies to
- The space we empty
- Length
- Twelve months
- Proof
- Photos before and after
- If a colony returns there
- We come back
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Bee nest removal you can hold us to
Bees only return to a cleared space if wax was missed or the way in was left open. Both are on us, so the closed gap carries a full year of cover, with pictures of the cleared cavity on your invoice.
A new colony in another part of the house is a separate job. We will point to the likely spots so you can close them before swarm season.
- Photos of the cleared space
- Cover terms written down
- No renewal fee
Keeping the next bee hive out
A few cheap fixes make the house much less tempting to next season's swarms.
Clip covers into the weep holes on the wall that was used.
Cap or cowl any chimney that is no longer lit.
Fill the joint where the soffit meets the brick.
Pack gaps around pipes and cables where they pass into the wall.
Look at that wall again each spring.
Scouts inspecting a gap? Ring before the rest of the swarm follows.
Beehive removal FAQs
When did you first notice the bees? That single fact tells us most about the size of the job.
Call 0435 073 966How much does beehive removal victoria cost?
Our standard cut out is from $495 including GST. Flues, second storey walls and oversized hives are from $895. You agree the figure before anything is opened.
Is there bee hive removal near me in regional towns?
Yes. Bendigo, Ballarat, Geelong and the Yarra Valley are all served, along with metro Melbourne.
Could beekeeper removal save the hive?
Possibly, if it is a loose swarm outside. Once a hive is built into a wall or roof, it becomes a building job, which is where we come in.
Is beekeeper hive removal cheaper?
Not usually for a hive in a building. Opening, clearing and closing the cavity costs the same whoever does it.
How do you remove honey bees from house cavities?
To remove honey bees from house walls we treat first, wait a day, open the lining over the wax, lift every sheet out, clean the space and seal the way in.
Why does all the wax need to come out?
Old comb goes soft in the heat, drips honey, feeds pests and smells like home to new swarms.
Can you tell how big the hive is from outside?
Roughly. Traffic, warm spots, stains and how long the bees have been there all help us judge it.
How big is the hole you cut?
Only big enough to reach every sheet, and always in a spot you agree to first.
Can we keep the honey?
No. Honey from a treated colony is not safe, so it is bagged and removed with the wax.
Do you do honey bee removal from trees?
Yes. Honey bee removal from a hollow trunk is treated, cleared as far as we can reach, then the opening is blocked.
Is bee nest removal covered?
Yes. The gap we close carries twelve months of cover.
Book beehive removal
Settled hives cleared from $495, all the wax lifted out, the space cleaned and a year of cover on the gap.