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  • Events
  • IVBA Meetings
  • IVBA/WATERWAYS BLOG
  • IVBA Trading Post
  • Contact US
  • Swarm List
  • Package Bees and Nucs
  • Local Honey for sale

Members willing to remove swarms

Seneca IL

Marseilles, IL

Marseilles, IL

Robin Smith

R & P Carriages

815-357-3292   9-5 M-S

815-228-3560  after hours

robin@needatrailer.com

Marseilles, IL

Marseilles, IL

Marseilles, IL

Tom Malone

815-210-4604

Marseilles, Il 





Tiskilwa, Il

Marseilles, IL

Tiskilwa, Il

John Sims

815-646-4810 or 815-303-4812

Tiskilwa - johnstree.lawncare@frontier.com

Morris, Il

Earlville / Mendota / Paw Paw

Tiskilwa, Il

Mike Lawyer

Morris, IL 

 1-779-435-9441

michael.lawyer@gmail.com


Rick Shouse

Morris - shouse.rick@yahoo.com

LaSalle/Peru

Earlville / Mendota / Paw Paw

Earlville / Mendota / Paw Paw

Warren Norris

815-228-3330

LaSalle - stateboyw@hotmail.com

Earlville / Mendota / Paw Paw

Earlville / Mendota / Paw Paw

Earlville / Mendota / Paw Paw

Stumreiter's Goodies - Mike & Sheri

815-503-2863

stumreitersgoodies@gmail.com


David Bickett

815-246-9395

Earlville - dcbickett@yahoo.com



Dayton/Norway

Peoria - Pekin Area

Peoria - Pekin Area

Chris Robinson

630-391-2578

 Robins.m.Christopher@gmail.com 


Peoria - Pekin Area

Peoria - Pekin Area

Peoria - Pekin Area

Heart of Illinois Beekeepers Assoc.

President - Sean Rennau  312-217-9274

 https://hoibees.org/swarms/

Fill out this form on line if you have a swarm

Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/hoibees

you can post your swarm on this page


Orion, IL

Peoria - Pekin Area

Orion, IL

 Robert Essary

Orion, IL 

 1-309-236-3533 



Utica Area

Sangamon Area near Springfield

Orion, IL

Jim Koniecski

Utica Il

jimkonieczki@yahoo.com

815-252-8802

Bloomington/Normal Area

Sangamon Area near Springfield

Sangamon Area near Springfield

Central IL Beekeepers Assoc. - CIBA

Cibabees@gmail.com - contact

Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/Central-Eastern-Illinois-Beekeeping-Association-416761008418015/

You can post your swarm on this page.



Sangamon Area near Springfield

Sangamon Area near Springfield

Sangamon Area near Springfield


 Sangamon valley beekeepers association 


 Don Miller

 otiefam@yahoo.com 







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Difference between Bees & Hornets

This is a Honey Bee Swarm

This is a yellow jacket nest

Honey bees make a tight cluster to keep the Queen Warm and fed.  It can be large or small.


This shows a picture of a swarm of bees.  They can be on a fence, in a tree, on the front of your house.  They land there until they locate a new home.

This is a yellow jacket nest

This is a yellow jacket nest

Yellow Jackets do not swarm like honey bees - they make a paper nest


This shows you a picture of a yellow jacket nest - they do not swarm.

Chart that shows differences

Chart that shows differences


Female Honey bees and Bumble Bees and Wasps will not sting unless they feel they are in Danger. 


Hornets Sting at will - 


Male Wasps and Honey bees do not have a stinger and cannot sting.  Male Carpenter bees also lack a stinger.  The males are the one with the white dot on their forehead.


The tab shows you the difference between them

Chart showing wasp, hornet, bumble bee, & honey bee

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