Russell Bee and Hornet Removal Service, based in Port Charlotte, provides honey bee removal across an especially wide and rural-reaching territory: Charlotte, DeSoto, Glades, Hendry, Lee, Collier, Sarasota, and Manatee counties. That reach is genuinely useful, because it includes hard-to-cover inland counties like Glades, Hendry, and DeSoto where finding a bee removal provider willing to make the trip isn’t always easy.
The company is licensed in Florida under license number JB176013 and handles honey bees including African honey bees, the more defensive strain that calls for careful, knowledgeable handling. For a homeowner in a rural part of Southwest Florida, having a licensed provider who covers your county and is comfortable with aggressive colonies is a real practical advantage.
Russell backs its work with a 90-day no-reinfestation guarantee, which gives you a window of assurance that bees won’t simply move back into the same spot after the job is done. Free estimates are available on request, so you can find out what your situation involves before making a decision.
One honest note for homeowners who specifically want a live-relocation outcome: the company’s materials don’t explicitly state whether bees are relocated alive or exterminated, so if that distinction matters to you, it’s worth asking directly when you call. Every job varies with access and location, and each beekeeper sets their own terms, so describe your situation and ask how they’d approach it.
