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Originally Posted by mtdjed
While realizing the role of bees for fertilization, bees in home areas are not beneficial. Realistically, small hives are not likely to be of any value to bee keepers. Paying an Exterminator to remove them would likely mean a price where they get removed with no guarantee of salvation.
A test: If you found a small bee's nest just forming in your house, do you call a beekeeper, exterminator or take care of it yourself? Check your neighbors for what they do.
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1. The OP's bees have set up hives in trees, not in the house.
2. Honeybees mark a territory approximately 5 miles surrounding their hives. Small hives might not be of value to beekeepers but they are of great value to the ecosystem, especially within five miles of the hive.
Anecdotally - when I lived up north, we had honeybees who would pollinate my flowering oregano garden. It was actually an herb garden with multiple herbs, but oregano always takes over whatever you plant it in so - there ya go.
Turned out, the honey I bought at the craft fair came from a beekeeper's hive two miles down the road, and it was oregano honey. The beekeeper had been wondering where they got so much oregano honey that over a thousand bees were bringing it home every week for their hives. My "local" honey turned out to be as local as possible. It was produced from the pollen collected in my own back yard garden.