Agatha B

aabeeremovals destroys swarm after swarm of bees

I only put 1 star as otherwise the system does not allow me to out in a review. They deserve way below zero stars! These people have the gall to advertise: 'Please help us save the bees & We do not **** bees' It makes me feel sick to my stomach everytime I pass their office on corner Cowley & Mount rds in Bryanston. My family and I recently had a very traumatic experience with aabeeremovals. (We had bees removed some years ago, the beekeeper came in the evening when all the bees were in the hive. He used his special bee box into which he transferred the hive, a painstakingly slow process. We felt good about the experience and felt the bees were off to greener pastures, happy we had done things the right way.) However, When aabeeremovals came here recently, they brought a bucket, dumped the hive into the bucket, and were in and out in a jiffy and the charge was about R700-850. My daughter said something did not feel right. For 10 days the worker bees hung in a clump close to where the nest had been, waiting for their queen it seemed. It was absolutely tragic to see and we would be worrying about them everyday. Sadly, still in the dark about the fact that aabeeremovals are actually destroying swarm after swarm of bees, we asked them to remove the rest of the bees. By this time my daughter had made enquiries and our fears were confirmed as just as the workers were viciously banging the lid on which the bees were hanging to get them into a bucket, she was on the phone to Kai Hichert, chairman if the southerns bee keeper association, who had just called her. She rushed outside to question the worker who by his answers, re confirmed that her fears had been well founded. She has a video of the 'interview' . She had found out from Kai that when a bee remover dumps a hive into a bucket all the bees and the queen drown in their own honey. Naturally, the eggs die. We were devastated! aabeeremovals are bee destroyers. They also strain the dead bees out of the honey and sell that. What they are doing they have been doing for 30 years: As the owner of the company told me when he was trying to calm my concerns early that morning with lies, which worked on me but fortunately not on my daughter. 30 years of ****ing swarm after swarm and selling his blood honey. I do not have the words to describe the disgust I feel and the sorrow for all the bees they have destroyed. It is depraved people like him who are decimating nature. He gets 4-5 clients everyday, blood money! whereas a bee keeper like Kai from Rivonia, can only probably do 1 a night. Please For ethical beekeepers contact the Southerns Beekeeping Association. If Kai is busy he will refer you to a registered member. aabeeremovals is operating illegally as far as I can tell as they are not registered with DAFF. I hope this disgusting excuse for a human being gets prosecuted!