Visible swarm capture
We assess exposed, accessible honey bee clusters on branches, fences, posts, and similar outdoor surfaces.
Natural beekeeping · Middle Tennessee
A gentler way to bring a colony home.
Avodah offers natural honey bee swarm capture, structural removal, and live rehoming around Nashville. Whether bees are resting on a branch or established inside a wall or roof, we work to preserve the colony whenever conditions allow and give locally adapted bees a new beginning.
A swarm is a beginning
Honey bees on the move—not a colony to destroy.
A hanging cluster on a limb, fence, or other open surface is often a honey bee swarm resting while scouts look for a home. When the bees are visible and accessible, a timely call gives us the best opportunity to capture the colony alive and rehome it thoughtfully.
What to do now: Keep people and animals at a respectful distance, do not spray or disturb the cluster, and call or text 615-712-4092.
Live rehoming
Our aim is to preserve the queen and colony, move them gently, and give the bees a suitable place to establish.
Registered Tennessee apiary
Avodah keeps its apiary registered with the State of Tennessee and treats apiary stewardship as a real responsibility.
Locally adapted bees
We value local, feral swarms that have already lived through the conditions of a Middle Tennessee season.
Natural stewardship
Our practice is no-feed and treatment-free: no routine sugar water, no chemical treatments, and less disruption inside the hive.
Cedar horizontal hives
We build our own horizontal hives from cedar, creating a durable home that is simpler to tend and gentler to inspect.
An invitation to notice
Pause here.
Take a breath. Look closely. Let the living world have your attention for a moment.
Let the bees be bees
Natural, local, and lightly held.
Our approach has been shaped by Adam Martin of Bee Kept and his Natural Beekeeping course through the School of Traditional Skills: work with locally adapted swarms, let bees forage for their own resources, leave them their honey, avoid routine chemical treatments and sugar-water feeding, and disturb the colony as little as responsible stewardship allows.
About Bee KeptNatural Beekeeping with Adam MartinTennessee apiary registration
A place to flourish
We happily rehome bees on sustainable properties.
A good host site is more than an open corner. We look for diverse forage through the seasons, a dependable water source, low pesticide exposure, sensible access, and enough room for bees and people to live calmly alongside one another.
Orchards, kitchen gardens, farms, homesteads, church land, and thoughtfully stewarded acreage may all be worth a conversation. Use the form below to tell us about your place.
Offer a propertyBefore we arrive
Helpful answers about swarms and rehoming.
What should I do when I find a honey bee swarm?
Keep children and pets at a respectful distance, do not spray the bees, and contact a beekeeper promptly. A visible cluster may move again while scout bees search for a permanent home.
Does Avodah remove bees from walls or buildings?
Yes. We assess and remove established honey bee colonies from walls, roofs, soffits, chimneys, and other structures when access and site conditions allow. Structural removals require an individual assessment, and building repair may be a separate scope.
Can my property become a home for rehomed bees?
Yes. We happily consider thoughtful properties with good forage, water, practical access, low pesticide exposure, and enough separation from frequent human or animal traffic. Each property is reviewed individually.
How does Avodah keep bees?
We follow a natural, low-intervention approach centered on locally adapted swarms, the bees’ own forage and honey, no routine sugar-water feeding, no chemical treatments, and cedar horizontal hives built by Avodah.
What does swarm removal cost?
Every location, height, access condition, and colony is different. We do not publish a generic price or promise a removal before reviewing the details. Send the location and what you see, and we will respond with the appropriate next step.
Swarm + host-property interest
Tell us what you see—or where bees could belong.
For a swarm, include its location, approximate height, size, and how long it has been present. For a host property, tell us about forage, water, pesticide use, access, and nearby activity.