Bee Removal in Melissa, Texas

Melissa has two kinds of bee problem in one small town

Almost every house in Melissa is new. Of roughly six thousand two hundred housing units, about seventy-three percent were built since 2010, only around two hundred predate 1980, and none at all were built before 1940. The median year of construction is 2015. As towns go, that is close to brand new.

The exception is Liberty. The Hillwood development opened in 2003 across five hundred and thirty-five acres and sold its last homes in 2024, which means it has something the rest of Melissa does not: twenty years of grown trees, established landscaping and a mature canopy around a lake and a catch-and-release pond.

That split produces two different calls. In Liberty, and in the older treelines along FM 545 and the county roads, we get swarms. Mature trees are exactly where a swarm clusters while scouts look for a permanent home. Everywhere else in Melissa, in the newer brick, we get colonies that have already moved into a wall.

Which one do you have?

A swarm is a clump of bees hanging in the open, often the size of a football or larger, with no comb and nothing to protect. It is usually docile. It is also temporary, which is why it is worth calling the same day: within a day or two those bees choose somewhere permanent, and that somewhere is often a neighbour's soffit.

A colony is bees flying steadily in and out of one gap in a structure. There is comb inside, and there is honey. It is not going to leave, and it grows through the season. Do not spray it and do not seal the entrance.

New brick is not bee-proof

Weep holes are the small gaps along the bottom course of a brick wall. They are meant to let the cavity drain, and every brick house in Melissa has them. To a swarm scouting for a home they read as an entrance to a dry, dark, defensible space, which is exactly what the colony wants.

Gable vents and the junction where soffit meets brick do the same. A house built in 2019 is just as capable of housing forty pounds of comb as one built in 1959. The difference is that the newer house usually hides it better, so the colony is bigger by the time anyone notices.

Being twenty-five minutes away actually matters

Most of the companies that rank for bee removal in Melissa are based in Dallas, Richardson or further south. That is a ninety-minute round trip before any work starts, which affects what they will take on and when they will come.

We are north of you, not south. TxDOT finished widening the last rural stretch of US 75 between Melissa and the Grayson County line in July 2026, which made that run quicker and more predictable than it used to be. For a swarm that may only sit still for a day, that difference is the whole job.

Call (903) 815-6380 for Melissa TX bee removal