To a lay person, coming face to face with a swarm of bees could be a frightening situation. Some experts of bee hive removal say, however, that typically most swarms are benign, except of course the dreaded Africanized killer bees which have been the subject of some thriller movies. When unprovoked, the swarms are virtually harmless because each individual bee is filled with honey and the colony in movement has no hive to protect. Their main objective is not to harm people but to find a new home for their queen and establish a new hive.

Africanized killer bees, while definitely more likely to attack than ordinary honey bees, will only strike when they feel their hive or swarm is being threatened. The problem with these killer bees is that they get irritated easily and are relentless pursuers. They are known to go after their perceived intruders to as far as one mile; that

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