Exterminators are seeing 20 to 40 percent more swarms than they’ve ever seen, Booth said. The current estimated population in Arizona alone is 4 million to 8 million wild swarms, with anywhere from 7,000 to 10,000 bees per swarm.

There might be more swarms in general, but I also see more late swarm with little chance of winter survival.   This year brought a Labor Day swarm.  This has changed in the past couple of decades and I wonder why.

I would also add that exterminators do not have a talent for identifying honeybee.  On multiple occasions I have been called to deal with yellow jackets identified by exterminators as honeybees.

Larry Krengel


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