{"id":361818,"date":"2026-08-03T19:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T19:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/361818\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T19:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T19:46:07","slug":"beehives-swarm-across-unusual-spots-in-south-florida-neighborhoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/361818\/","title":{"rendered":"Beehives swarm across unusual spots in South Florida neighborhoods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bee hives are popping up in some unusual places across South Florida neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This summer has been crazy,&#8221; said Victor Gonzalez, owner of <a href=\"https:\/\/flbeerescue.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Florida Bee Rescue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He says the heat makes bees reproduce faster, but habitat loss also has them looking for new homes. And bees raised in backyard hives look for new homes, too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bees are incredible animals,&#8221; Gonzales said. &#8220;They can be capable to build in water meters, soffits, trash tanks, jacuzzies, light poles&#8230;anything that has a dead space in the area like a hollow they can actually go inside.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Video from North Miami Beach shows bees at the base of a covered patio chair.\u00a0 When the cover was removed, the chair was blanketed with bees.<\/p>\n<p>Other videos from Miami Shores show bees buzzing along a home&#8217;s roofline and even building a hive in old plant pots.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Miami watched Gonzalez remove a hive from a townhome&#8217;s roofline in Doral, near Arlene Suarez&#8217;s home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very much worried about them,&#8221; she said in Spanish. &#8220;Because there are children here who play outside.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez uses smoke to calm down the bees and then a vacuum to remove them.\u00a0 He relocates the hives to his family farm because he says protecting the bees is important.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Without bees we don&#8217;t have any food,&#8221; says Gonzalez, who estimates that 80% of the world&#8217;s crops rely on pollinators like bees.<\/p>\n<p>He says having an expert remove hives is important because it can be dangerous work and if it&#8217;s not done properly, the bees will return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bee hives are popping up in some unusual places across South Florida neighborhoods. &#8220;This summer has been crazy,&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[103800,14180,1563,28,30,29,807],"class_list":["post-361818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-bees","tag-doral","tag-environment","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}