Honey Bee

Honey bees are the species kept by bee keepers. If you have a problem with honey bees, contact a local bee keeper or Environmental Health Department, as they’ll be able to arrange for the swarm to be relocated.

Life Cycle

• They live in hollow trees or in chimneys, wall cavities and roof spaces.
• They are similar in size to wasps, but are furrier and mostly black in colour.
• Honey bees convert nectar into honey and beeswax.
• A honey bee swarm will arrive in flight and cluster on a tree branch.
• A colony can often number more than 30,000 individual honey bees.
• Honey bee population is under threat from Varroa mite.