Bumble Bees Under Siding

Try planting a bee garden away from where the bees are congregating around your house siding.

Bumble bees under siding.

Some honey bees look black too. Observe the bees during the afternoon as that is the most active time of day for yellow jackets. Now you might think that a hive hidden away inside of the siding on your home whether it s wood vinyl or aluminum is hard to get rid of but actually they re pretty safe and easy. Whether in abandoned rodent holes gaps in siding piles of wood or even compost heaps bumblebees will build a nest in a dry protected place.

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. If you see a honey bee in the united states you ll be looking at the european honey bee. If possible mark off any entrance holes you find so that you can easily identify them later. The honey bee is one half to three fourths an inch in length.

Among the honey bees the queen along with her many offsprings stays in the hive and hibernates. Bees will usually sequester themselves away in overhangs cracks window and door frames and under siding basically anywhere they can build a cozy nest. Follow where they seem to disappear into the side of your house. Among the bumble bees just the queen hibernates and that too inside a hole in the ground.

Locate the entrance through which the bees are entering your siding. Bumble bees have small colonies consisting of around 50 300 bees. Even though a hive nestled inside the wood aluminum or vinyl siding is hard to actually reach these are in fact some of the easiest and safest types of nests to get rid of because they require no contact. 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.

While bumblebees are social their colonies are usually much smaller 50 400 insects than the massive hives built by honeybees. Bees are so endangered that i would never suggest anything that could cause them harm. My house has vinyl siding. 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.

I ve also had one get in the house as i was going in the door. 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. Honey bees live in big hives consisting of around 20 000 60 000 bees.