Most people are afraid of bees, and for good reason. While thousands are highly allergic to bees and can possibly die when stung, bee stings are incredibly painful too. But moreover, bees can also become a problem when they create homes around or inside your house. And even if you’re an avid bee lover, having them around is just not advisable.
If you’ve found yourself in this type of predicament, make sure to call a professional to help you get these pesky stingers out safely. If you happen to live in Austin, Texas, then you’re in luck! Because they have one beekeeper that’s more than happy to handle your bee problem, and she doesn’t even bother to wear protective gear.
Erika Thompson decided to quit her office job sometime in 2019 when she decided to put up her new business, Texas Beeworks. With a mission to increase the population of bees and hives in what many people refer to as ‘The Lone Star State.’
These days, she keeps busy by traveling all over the state to rescue pesky and errant bee swarms from harm by preserving their old hive and cutting them into various sections so she can transfer them to new hives that she brings along. She then transports the hive inside her truck and bring them to her own land so they can recover.
Much like a horse whisperer, it would seem that Erika is a bona fide bee whisperer, if there ever was one. When she arrives in the area where the bees needing rescue are located, she can already tell whether the bees she’s rescuing are going to sting her or not, and if they will, this is when she will use protection. But when she knows that the bees won’t sting her, she doesn’t bother with protection but rather, works basically gearless.
Instead, she trees the bees as she would a puppy or a kitten, scooping them out without issue using her bare hands. And as she does, she even films herself and puts her videos on her Tiktok account, or her IG page, or YouTube channels, cooing about how kind, orderly, and soft they are.
Most people that see her videos make comments like, “How come they aren’t stinging you?” To which she responds that the key is to really ‘read the bees’ mood.’
She explained on her website, “After we remove the bees, they are relocated to one our 25+ bee sanctuaries in the Austin area so that the bees can continue their important work in a place that is both safer for you and for them.”
While most companies will charge around $100 or more to have a well-established hive removed from their property, Erika who is an avid bee conservationist, encourages anyone with this problem to protect them, offering them free bee swarm removals. Unlike what most people know or think, swarms are just balls of bees without a hive that don’t normally have a queen, making them basically aimless.
Moreover, Texas Beeworks doesn’t even bother to sell the honey that comes for her hives out of respect for all the bee’s hard work, and instead, she makes a living just from bee removal work and the beekeeping classes she offers.
See more of what she does in the video posted below.
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