Bees Living In My Siding

Follow where they seem to disappear into the side of your house.

Bees living in my siding.

Bees are so endangered that i would never suggest anything that could cause them harm. If possible mark off any entrance holes you find so that you can easily identify them later. The honeycomb and bees can be stored in a commercial hive until it can be delivered to a local beekeeper. If wasps bees or hornets have built some sort of nest in the siding of your home you can do something about it.

Just this summer i got my first sting from a bee where the colony had made its hive just under the first step of my mother s second story porch. Buzzing noises in the wall. Common places for bees to hide and build nests include overhangs cracks window frames shutters door frames and underneath the siding. Observe the bees during the afternoon as that is the most active time of day for yellow jackets.

Where the siding meets the concrete foundation of the house bees are going up there and i assume they re building a hive of some sort. The most common places to find bees would be under eaves and awnings porches and in the voids of walls a particularly annoying place for a queen bee to choose as a hive. Nests under roof eaves or in the ground. If there are nests in the wall you may hear buzzing from all the bee activity.

If bees are making nests in your walls or attic you may find dead bees in windowsills or near doors. Locate the entrance through which the bees are entering your siding. They aren t aggressive but this is happening right by the most used door of the house so it s probably just a matter of time before i piss them off. If the bees are boring holes into your siding they are carpenter bees not bumble bees.

Once the nest has been removed dead bees must be removed and the siding and exposed wall must be cleaned with soapy water before replacing the siding.