Don’t delay – make the call. A swift response is better for bees and the public — 07528196421. or facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chris.knibbs.716
From the end of April to mid July in our area, honey bees will naturally want to reproduce.
To do that about half of the bees will leave their home in a big swarm, and will settle as a big clump of bees on something nearby.
It could be anything, but is often on the branch of a tree or bush.
Speed is the essence, the swarm could be there for a few minutes or stay for several days and perish.
The pictures are photos of swarms I have dealt with locally.
If a swarm of bees arrive in your garden, or some other place, we are happy to remove them for you free of charge within a 20 mile radius. This covers Crewe, Nantwich, Stoke-on-Trent, Audlem, Market Drayton, Whitchurch.
Once collected, they will get a health check, a mite treatment and then re-homed in a cosy hive where they will have a better chance of survival than if they were left to fend for themselves.
If you are further away, there is a national swarm collection help web site enquiry service.
http://www.bbka.org.uk/help/find_a_swarm_coordinator.php
As beekeepers we get an amazing selection of interested or concerned people contacting us with bee problems.
Most calls come from people who have “a swarm” of bees at or near their house- in a bird box or behind the gutters just under their roof. When investigated, these are invariably a relatively docile type of bumble bee that has only recently graced our shores.
This is the tree bumble bee and is the only common bumble bee to nest well above ground. It is only active in May and June and if possible should be left alone. If it needs discouraging from returning next year, just block up their entrance after they have left in late June or July. It has a white tail and a orange/buff back. 
In late July, through August and into September, wasps are the bees’ number one enemy. Wasps can strip a bee hive of its honey and kill all the bees in minutes.
Common Wasp Vespula Vugaris
If you look up at them against a light sky background they look deceptively like our honey bees.
For the bees survival, the wasps nests unfortunately need to be destroyed. The most humane way of treating them is to obtain a proprietary foam spray and spray in at the entrance at dusk when the wasps have all returned home for the night.
Honey bees are torpedo shaped, are hairy and come in different colour tones from almost black to a lighter brown with some stripes on their abdomen.
