Many of the local beekeeping associations offer classes that one can attended to learn how to keep bees.

Are you interested in learning about honey bees? Do you want to keep your own hives and become a beekeeper, or are you just curious about what that involves? The courses will introduce you to the fundamentals of beekeeping. We welcome anyone who has an interest in the honey bee to check out the list of current associations that are offering classes.

Apiary Inspection services are provided by the Alabama Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services (ADA&CS), Plant Industry Division, Plant Protection Section, Apiary Services.

• The strength of the beekeeping industry in Alabama is in large part due to the cooperation between the ABA and the inspectors.
• Apiary Services endeavor to identify, contain, and eradicate honey bee pests.
• The inspectors help mitigate beekeeping industry problems and train beekeepers.
• Get acquainted with your inspectors.
• Avail yourself of their services. You will be a better beekeeper for it!

Visit the Apiary Services web site for details of the services provided, regulations, and recommendations about beekeeping.

If you have a honey bee swarm hanging in your yard and would like to get rid if it, we would like to remove it for you. We will shake the bees into a box and haul them away from your property! We will take them to our apiary and put them to work collecting honey.

It is best to have them removed because they are looking for a permanent home in the walls and or soffit of buildings on your property (like your house) is a suitable home!

Once a swarm has taken up residency somewhere, that swarm has now become a colony. Colonies have been found anywhere from homes, cars, trees, and gas grills. Honeybees have been known to make their homes just about anywhere. If you have an unwanted colony of honeybees that has taken up residents in the walls of your home or other structure and would like it removed, click the below link to find a beekeeper nearest you.

There is normally a charge for this service. The Alabama Beekeepers Association does in no way guarantee any worked performed nor are we responsible for the activities of any beekeeper.

There are 33 known regional beekeeping Associations in the state of Alabama. The below list is a randomized list. Click the below button to get a complete list...

The Alabama Beekeepers Association has 6 members on the Board of Directors, two from the north one-third, two from the middle one-third and two from the south one-third of the state. The list below is only 9 of the 33 associations in the state. The complete list also has each president with their email and phone number. Complete list...