Trying to contact @annemarie or any other honeybee people

I think we have a colony of honeybees under our side porch. I don't want to harm them, I just want them to live somewhere else.

I've sent a message to @annemarie, but I don't know if she's still active on MOL. I'm hoping she sees this, or else, that another honeybee person might want to take a look and maybe move the bees.

I am sure they are not wasps,hornets, yellow jackets, carpenter bees, cicaca-killers, or the fuzzy yellow-and-black ones I've always called bumblebees. If these are honeybees, they need all the help they can get. If they aren't, I'll call a pest control company to get ride of them, but I wanted to reach out to people with honeybees already to see if they wanted any more.

Thanks for any info or contact information anyone might have. (We're local, in Maplewood, if that makes a difference.)

I will email her

She has a thread about donations for the Mothers & More diaper drive... might try reaching here there?

Thank you so much, joy!

I'm here! Yes, email me. It's likely they're wasps, but we are happy to come take a look. All reputable exterminators will not kill honeybees (it's illegal) so if you called someone in pest control, they would likely be honest and let you know. 

I'll start a thread on how to ID swarms so people can keep an eye out and let us know if they see one. Because it's just about swarm season! 

Thanks, annemarie. Looking forward to having you check out the bees - hope they are good ones!