We Would Like To Give You Some Information On Product & Services For Honey, Beeswax,
Swarms, and other Bee Products From Our Members.
Beekeeper: Andy Hemken
W229 S7120 Guthrie School Rd.
Big Bend, WI 53103
262-662-2843
For Sale/Service:
Honey - Beeswax - Beeswax Products - Swarms
Beekeeper: Jerrel Thomas
1046 River Park Cir. W. #204
Mukwonago, WI 53149
262-347-9966
For Sale:
Honey
Beekeeper: Eric Karaban
Viola's Honey
Hales Corners, Wisconsin
414-525-9831
For sale:
honey - beeswax products - comb honey - creamed honey
Bee Stuff
Our beekeepers sell honey, beeswax, candles, pollen and other
hive products, and we are working to help connect them to you.
Catching Swarms of Honeybees, and Dealing With Other Stuff
Some of our beekeepers also remove swarms of honeybees. these are usually a football
sized globe of honeybees hanging on a branch, post or other object. In reality, they are there for possibly a day or more,
waiting to find a suitable nesting site, usually a hollow tree or inside the walls of a house. Beekeepers like to collect
the swarms, because we can stock a beehive with them.
Our beekeepers are mostly hobbyists, with full-time jobs. We would like to come and
get the swarm of honeybees, but may not always be able to come right away. Please understand that collecting swarms is not
a public service. We normally do not have the time, energy and tools to get these honeybees out of your home, buildings or
other structures, or to retrive swarms 30 to 50 feet in the air, or out of a hollow tree. Don't yell at us if we cannot work
miracles.
We normally do not deal with hornets, wasps or yellow jackets. That would be for the
exterminators, and they are in the phone book.
Yellow jacket nests are normally in the ground, with a hole about an inch across.
The underground nest itself is usually about soccerball sized. You can wait till near dark, and pour a pail of soapy
water down the hole to deal with them.
A wasp nest is usually grey in color, about basketball sized, and in the small limbs
of a tree. You might wait until about almost dark when the wasps are in the nest. You can carefully wrap a plastic bag around
the whole nest at once, clip the branch it's on, and close it up. Then spray starting fluid (ether) into the bag opening.
The wasps will be dead in a few moments. Or simply spray hornet killer into the opening, which is generally on the lower part
of the nest.
Wasps and hornets and honeybees may find a small hole on the outside of your home
or bulding, which leads to the inside of the wall, soffet, attic or other space. They will be more than willing to move in
a create a nest. It is important in the spring, or other time of the year, to make sure that you caulk, tuckpoint or seal
up these holes. It is amazing where we have taken critters out of.
You can also make a wasp & hornet trap. A gallon milk jug, filled with 12 ounces
of beer, and another 12 ounces of fruit juice. They will come running.
Wasps, hornets and yellow jackets give our honeybees a bad name. They do have a place
in nature, as little carnivores. Kind of like the junk men of the insect world. They eat protein, larva and other critters.
They are really bad in the fall, when food supplies run low, and appear to be everywhere.
Just a few things to think about.
