Working Girls Urban Bee Company

05/21/2020

It's swarm season! If you spot a honeybee swarm that might need some help finding a good home, please call or text Kellie: (360)481-1297 (Thurston County area). The service is free and she'd love a few swarm calls this year!

05/07/2019

It's bee season! If you spot a honeybee swarm, Kellie would be happy to gently remove it and give the bees a loving home. 💓 Give her a buzz or a text: 360.481.1297

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09/14/2018

Fun article about city bees: “If you ask 10 beekeepers, you will get 11 opinions.”

Where the 20,000 insects ended up is known, thanks to Twitter, but where they originated from before invading a hot dog cart in Manhattan remains a mystery, and a blame game.

06/19/2017

Swarm PSA: Many of us have been trained to see honeybee swarms as aggressive, but they are actually quite gentle. Here's some footage from last week of Kellie guiding a swarm into a box. Note that she is doing this bare-handed. She didn't get stung once. This is not to say we recommend trying this at home ;) , but do know that the bees aren't looking for a fight.

05/11/2017

It's bee season. If you spot a honeybee swarm and need someone friendly to remove it (and give the bees a home) give Kellie a buzz: 360.481.1297

We love bees. We are available to extract any swarms of wild honeybees that have made a home in any undesirable location. No chemicals, just TLC, and we will give the bees a good home.

04/29/2016

Our website was down for a while, but now it is up and running. Feel free to share and contact Kellie with any of your swarm removal needs. Happy bee season! http://www.workinggirlsbees.com/

It’s Swarm Season! April 30, 2014 by kellie As the weather heats up you are increasingly likely to encounter a swarm of honeybees. Don’t panic. These bees are generally harmless–they are just looking for a new home. What to do: Call or Text Urban Girls Bee Removal at 360.481.1297 Kellie will do her…

05/01/2015

For a long time I've wanted to tell you all about the tree trunk hives Kellie keeps in our yard--salvaged homes from trees that needed to be cut down. They are very cool. This blog post explains, and has pictures.

My partner Kellie keeps bees—a lot of them. Actually, she does more than keep them. She catches swarms, she cuts colonies out of walls and re-homes them into hives, and sometimes, when she gets a call about some honeybees living in a tree that the owner wants to cut down, Kellie drives on over with a chain saw, and comes home with four feet of the trunk—a ready-made beehive complete with a well-established colony. [ 1128 more words. ]

04/21/2015

It was a busy day here at Working Girls HQ (home). Just as yesterday's swarm moved into the empty tree-stump hive (photo 1), another colony swarmed and clustered in the crab apple tree (photo 2).

04/19/2015

A semitruck rolled Friday morning, spilling a load of bees worth $92,000 on Interstate 5 at the Interstate 405 interchange near Lynnwood.

04/18/2015

Need some help with your honeybees? Kellie offers on-site consultations, $40 if you are in the Olympia area. She can help you catch a swarm, walk you through the process of hive maintenance, help with hive placement, etc. Call or text (360)481-1297.

04/01/2015

Bee season is on!

07/15/2014

The demise of honeybees should alert us that our own well-being might be similarly threatened.