For homeowners and property managers around Lubbock and West Texas, Bee for Life Foundation offers live honey bee removal and relocation. Founder Ben Kazyaka started keeping bees in 1998 to pollinate his fruit orchard; community requests for humane removal grew from there into an organization first known as IRescueBees and later rebranded as Bee for Life.
Swarms and established hives call for different approaches, and an experienced beekeeper matches the method to how and where the bees have settled. Services noted for this provider: live removal (honey, bumble, and Africanized bees), thermal imaging, and relocation. A typical structural removal follows a careful sequence – locate the colony with thermal imaging or listening methods, expose the nest, find and cage the queen, capture the workers, remove the comb, and transport everything to an apiary for rehoming.
A conservation network, not a single truck
Bee for Life operates as a network with reach well beyond Lubbock: West Texas coverage includes Abilene, San Angelo, Sweetwater, Brownwood, Breckenridge, and dozens of smaller towns, plus Midland and Odessa, the Dallas-Fort Worth metro, and affiliates in Oklahoma, Alabama, and Georgia. In parts of its Texas service area the foundation operates as a tax-deductible organization, while network members provide standard (non-deductible) services. Education is central to the mission, from beekeeping training to a youth bee camp, and hive products such as honey help support the work.
West Texas swarm season runs roughly March through June. Reach out for an assessment – terms and any fees are set by the beekeeper.