Ana Angulo and Jean Loui Navarro are passionate about rescuing bees and they are hoping to help change the pest control industry.
The master beekeepers know pesticides are impacting the powerful pollinators responsible for about 75% of flowering plants and 35% of food crops.
“Bees pollinate about one-third of everything we eat ... without them our ecosystems completely collapse,” Angulo said.
Navarro and Angulo co-own Mega Bee, a rescue and pest control company that also produces raw honey in Miami-Dade County.
“Our entire team are registered beekeepers,” Navarro said. “We go in, we locate the hive, physically remove that beehive and then we relocate it to local apiaries.”
At their apiary, there was a collection of beehives growing in boxes. Angulo said the bees “don’t get the credit that they deserve.”
A box at the apiary could have at least 20,000 bees inside. Worker bees only live about 40 days. The queen bee lays about 2,000 eggs daily.
“They’re building overall wax,” Navarro said.
The beekeepers wear protection since bees die after they sting and stuff a smoker with pine needles to help relax the bees before removal.
Angulo and Navarro bottle the raw honey from the beehives they have helped rescue.
“We wanted to be that type of awareness for people,” Angulo said. “And, I feel like our honey became a type of symbol to show that mission behind it.”
Mega Bee also removes other insects such as wasps, ants, bed bugs, cockroaches, fleas, termites, mosquitoes, and spiders -- and other pests.
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For more information about their services, visit this page.
For more information about their raw honey, visit this Instagram profile and the retail page.
