Terry Winchester talking to the bees

AA BEE REMOVALS was established by Terry Winchester some 35 years ago, initially as a personal fascination and hobby, this business has metamorphosed over the years to become a fully operational entity. Two full time beekeepers are employed and, during the “bee season” – generally September to January in the southern …

The start of a day

Each morning during the swarming season,  3 bee catching teams go out to help people with troublesome swarms. We get up to 100 calls a day and are able to save about 30 bee swarms each day. If bees are to be successfully removed without harming them it has to be …

‘Robbing’ honey from a hive

Robbing is an unfortunate term to use for this activity as it implies that we need to rob the bees of their honey. The fact is the bees willingly allow their keeper to help themselves to this golden harvest whenever the honey is ready. Unfortunately there are unscrupulous, greedy  bee keepers who …

We remove bees from anywhere

We have never failed to remove a swarm of bees. On some very difficult occasions we had to talk to the queen and warn her that if she didn’t come out on her own we would have to call in the exterminators. Amazingly this is usually enough to get all the …

A migrating swarm of bees

A bee hive will split up into 2 or 3 new swarms each year. This is how they propagated the species. About one third of the swarm will leave the mother hive and settle in a cluster a few meters away. They sit like this while the scouts go out and find …

Terry Winchester handling the bees

Terry Winchester produces yummy honey thanks to his bees

BBC Documentary

The BBC has used Terry’s unique ability to communicate with bees for a couple Survival Reality programs – ‘To the Ends of the Earth’ and ‘The World’s 60 most dangerous Animals’.  We did this to help promote global awareness of our need to care for these amazing creatures.