USA Bee Removal ✓ Silver certified

USA Bee Removal is an Austin-based pest control outfit with a specific angle: live bee removal and relocation rather than extermination. On paper the numbers are strong — 4.9 stars across 71 Google reviews, a claimed profile, a working website, and the business advertises round-the-clock availability every day of the week. It clears most of CertifiedLocal's automated checks, including recent review activity, a response rate above 30%, and no unanswered low-star reviews in the past 90 days, but it falls short of full certification on a few profile-hygiene items worth knowing about. What customers consistently highlight is speed and the relocation approach. One reviewer called in the morning and had a beekeeper on site within hours; another reports a 90-minute arrival from first call. Two separate reviews mention that the crew preserved most of the colony — one estimates 95% of the bees saved — and relocated them rather than killing them, which clearly matters to this customer base. The diagnostic work draws praise too: in one case a technician used an endoscope to inspect a wall, confirmed there was no hive, and backed it up with an expert's opinion instead of selling an unnecessary job. The owner replies to reviews promptly and politely, though the responses read as fairly templated thank-you notes rather than substantive engagement. The caveats are mostly about the profile, not the service. The automated check flags missing service options, and the hours data is contradictory: the listing shows "open 24 hours" all seven days, yet the certification check marks both the 50-hours-per-week threshold and the complete-weekly-schedule criterion as unmet — a sign the profile data isn't fully maintained, whatever the real availability is. The photo count hasn't been verified either. And a note of honest caution on the reviews themselves: the five on record here are uniformly five-star with no criticism at all, so while the 4.9 average across 71 reviews is reassuring, this sample gives no view into how the company handles a job that goes sideways, nor any mention of pricing. If you have an active swarm or an established hive and you want the bees relocated alive, this looks like a solid call — fast response times and humane removal are the two things customers verify again and again. Treat the 24/7 claim as something to confirm by phone rather than trust from the listing, ask for a price before anyone climbs a ladder since no reviewer mentions cost, and don't expect the profile itself to tell you much about the service menu. The track record customers describe is better than the housekeeping on the profile suggests.