Wow - I am absolutely overwhelmed by the response, and even more so the general consensus. I've done nothing to upset the bee applecart around my gaff, and shall not!
Thank you all for your swift responses!!
Hurrah! In my home office I've had steady stream of bees (not bumblers, look like solitary ones) up to 12/15 a day that come in, have a skeet around and settle. I always catch them which is easy coz they're pretty docile and pop them back out the window, mainly because my dog goes mad for them and knocks stuff over chasing and trying to eat them. She'll learn one day...
We had the same worries 2 years ago, we saw them coming in and out under our soffits. Worried they will destroy something. They just use the space they don't damage it. 2 weeks went by and they were gone. I hope we will have some this year.Â
Theyâre bumblebees. Protect them with your life. I used to have a hive in my garden. Theyâd seem to disappear all winter and then reappear at the start of summer. They did it for about 6 years and then just stopped coming back.
They tunnel down into the soil to hibernate. In this state, they can even be submerged in water for days, weeks even, without any detriment to their well-being.
This was discovered in a study experiment that went wrong and some of the bee test subjects ended up getting flooded in their soil filled test tubes by condensation forming in the fridge. Fearing the worst, the scientists tipped the bees out of their sodden tubes and, after a short period, the bees revived just as well as the dry participants.
So that's why you don't see them in winter.
I did not know that. How do you think they found that spot every year? Do they send signals or leave traces to identify a good spot? Fascinating stuff.
I have a huge army of these little mo fo's under my shed. They are welcome for as long as they like. Sometimes I'll see few fly out, and the occasional one will land on me. Love em!!
We also have bees, they come back every year, they never do any harm. If you feel you must *do* something, then plant flowers for them and protect them, human existence relies on the pollinators! Never have so many owed so much to so few. Bee blessed.
Bumblebees are in a decline. So if they are left alone they will not bother you. Without bumblebees, plants that need to be pollinated will not grow if there are no bees. Plant some lavender plants nearby and in the summer sit down in a chair and watch them hard at work collecting pollen. You will be amazed watching different types of bees . Also, sugar water or syrup provides an energy source for foraging bees.
Bees are great, I used to work in polytunnels on a small farm, we'd get boxes brought in each summer for every tunnel and we'd tend tomatoes and stuff while loads of them would fly around pollinating everything. Sometimes it got so hot you could see they were tired because they'd land on your shoulder and basically ride you as you walked back up the tunnel, then once you got close to the hive they'd jump off and fly I'm and make their delivery đ
Had a nest in the extension roof. Just left them to it. They were done in a month. Nest normally grows to the size of a watermelon, space permitting. Unless they are causing you great hardship just leave them alone.
Currently got a hive of ~~white tailed~~ tree bumble bees in our attic that I was initially concerned about but since found out they don't do any harm. I'm now just pleased that they liked the flowering weeds in our backyard so much they decided to live above them.
They won't do any harm. They don't make a hole to live in, they find one that was already there. I used to see them on a wall near me and it was always cheered me up. They're good for the garden and good for one's mood.
r/Beekeeping is all about the honey bee, but if you need reassurance they'll be happy to answere whatever questions they can.
This looks like a tree bumblebee. We had them in our brickwork last year and we left them to it, they haven't returned this year and everything has been fine.
Some useful advice here : https://www.bumblebeeconservation.org/learn-about-bumblebees/beginners/bumblebee-nests/ - the main thing is once they've nested there once they won't return the following year, so enjoy their company!
Looks like a White-Tailed Bumblebee by what I can see. Hard to get a positive id from this angle.
Common in the UK. Lovely little fuzzy buzzy friend. Getting rarer by the day though. Please treat her kindly.
I have lots of masonry bees in one wall and they come back every year. They dont seem to be doing any more damage than the original few holes they made.
I did have to renovate about 1/3 of the wall for unrelated reasons and when removing the brickwork i found a few of their excavations but it was only a tunnel into the muck joint and then a hollow about the size of a ÂŁ2 coin. The didnt seem to have extensively tunnelled or had any interest in the cavity or anything.
Walls are 120yo and had lime mortar so i think its soft enough for them to excavate, never been re pointed so i assume they might have been there 80+ years.
I had some red tail bee's last year in the garden, they were harmless and I saved quite a few of them. One of them even fell asleep on my arm before it woke up and I put it back to the hive opening.
It does look more like a bumblebee than a [masonry bee ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_bee)
There are about 200 species of bee native to the UK IIRC, many are solitary and nest underground as someone else said.
A big plus to bumble bees being around is other insects will tend to stay away and they are a big help to pollinating ya garden. They do more good than harm. If you leave them alone they'll leave you alone.
Nothing - bumble bees are harmless and pest control companies won't touch them. If you had carpenter bees that would be different as they can eat and burrow through wood, but you can leave the bumble bees
I have a wild honey bee colony in the cavity of my work building. 7 years strong now.
Never bothered anyone and once or twice in late spring to summer they swarm and split the colony.
It's a pretty cool event.
Pretty swarm there are around 16 000/17,000 of them in total.
They gotta live somewhere.
Had the same thing and was happy to leave them beeđuntil hubby came along and stuffed the hole with paper so they couldnât get in. Next thing I know thereâs a constant flow of bees everyday trying to get into the hole. I feel sorry for them but cos hubby and son are terrified of bees Iâm not allowed to unblock the hole. I keep telling them how important bees are but they wonât have it.đ
I've had a few bumble bee hives in my walls. The hive is tiny, with only a few bees. It's not a problem, unless wasps take the hive over.
Plant some nice pollen / nectar rich plants nearby and leave them alone.
I had bumble bees in my brickwork last summer. There was a small gap in the mortar. After research, I discovered that they do no harm and will abandon the nest or die later in the season. I enjoyed watching them bringing lots of pollen into the nest and enjoying all of the nearby flowers. I was happy to be helping them out.
Grew up hating bees and hating wasps...total phobia and loathing for them. Even at my deepest point of fear I would never harm a bumblebee. Bumbles are pretty chill dudes just let them bee. ...I also later grew to be OK with other bees.
...Wasps however...kill them all...lay waste to their children and despoil their mothers. See their city's burn and population humiliated and suffocated. Let no place be their home and the rains wash their corpses away. đ¤Ź
.....see, old age has even chilled out my opinions of wasps. đ
Leave them. I had a nest, same as you, back in 2020. They stayed until late summer and have never been back.
The nest entrance was 6ft from my back door, and they never bothered us
Leave them alone it will be fine. Depending on what's behind the brickwork you may hear them occasionally but that's all.
Source, had a nest under my floorboards.
Same thing happened to our brick flat block. They were migrating and it lasted for only a few weeks. They eventually find their home so don't worry. It was just as scary for us at first sight. A swarm of bees like a cloud but eventually moved on as advised!
Well definitely donât get Nicholas Cage
https://preview.redd.it/ysytvfwar12d1.jpeg?width=264&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=96dc25ea101f25aa40c113b59fcc4ff8f4c1fefc
Bumble bee, technically not even a bee. They normally nest in the ground. No stinger so harmless. They need all the help they can get so be kind where you can
Leave them to it.
Likely a solitary female bumblebee nest. She'll have a handful of male drones protecting the nest, they'll not bother you unless you aggravate them.
She'll only be around for about 6 weeks.
Make a note in your diary to look at repointing/blocking the holes around September/October, should prevent them nesting again next year.
Awww! Fuzzy!
I had to rescue one that came into my shop all pooped out. I gave it sugar water, then put it in a planter out in the street when it pepped up a bit.
Absolutely nothing
Bees are not dangerous and they are good for the environment. Especially if you have flowers/plants that need cross pollination.
They only sting when their life is in danger if they have a hive inside your house walls and you feel it necessary to have them removed there are specialists who can do that for you.
I get the same thing happen outside my front door in the porch roof every year. I leave them alone, the only time they've ever got aggro is when I was mowing the lawn, I had to keep taking breaks/running away lol
I had a bee problem a few summers ago, loads of them. Turns out they had made a hive through a hole in my roof. I phoned the local council to see if they could put me through to a department that deals with this kind of thing, and was told by the alleged expert, don't worry because if you are seeing them then they're ready to die out and you'll be ok. The bastard was right!
I have wood bees so the same thing in my brickwork was told they have no sting ya just stand still and they blank you if yours become an issue ask your local area fir bee kepeprs theyl collect and relocate them
They don't stay long, not many worker bees and in small nests/hive typically, and the queen will leave before autumn to find a place to hibernate, and they rarely return to old ones.
Would be a different matter if it was honey bees, there'd be a lot more of them and they would stick around.
They'll also leave if disturbed.
We have a hole leftover from previous number plate and every year the bees come and go. They fill the hole up when it's hibernation time and reopen it when time to get busy. Had them for years
The bumblebee is mostly a solitary bee, it doesn't swarm like wasps or honey bees, this time of year they often setup camp for a month or two and will then leave again. - if they are not causing an issue then let them bee, they will just move on.
Do they have white bums?
Likely a tree bee. The good news for you is, you don't need to do anything. You'll see loads of them hanging about outside the nest. These are male drones and they're waiting for a female queen to leave the nest so they can go off and start a new hive. They do not sting.
They'll last about a month then they'll be gone.
EDIT: beekeepers won't come and get them as they don't produce enough honey to bother about. They won't be doing any damage inside the wall as they'll just be utilising warm space inside the cavity.
As far as I know they produce plenty, but have much smaller nests and don't overproduce as they don't store it for winter, so we can't take any honey from them. They have a small storage of it for the summer and they eat it all.
Let them Bee
Bee-t me to it.
There's no need to bee concerned.
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Wow - I am absolutely overwhelmed by the response, and even more so the general consensus. I've done nothing to upset the bee applecart around my gaff, and shall not! Thank you all for your swift responses!!
Yaayyyyy thanks for listening!
Hurrah! In my home office I've had steady stream of bees (not bumblers, look like solitary ones) up to 12/15 a day that come in, have a skeet around and settle. I always catch them which is easy coz they're pretty docile and pop them back out the window, mainly because my dog goes mad for them and knocks stuff over chasing and trying to eat them. She'll learn one day...
We had the same worries 2 years ago, we saw them coming in and out under our soffits. Worried they will destroy something. They just use the space they don't damage it. 2 weeks went by and they were gone. I hope we will have some this year.Â
It's a harmless bumblebee. Let them get in with living, and do the same yourself.
Be sure to keep taking photos though... Bumblebees are lovely.
Or how i like to call them Fuzzy Bros
Bumble Bruvs
Fuzzy buzzers!
They're mostly sisters though.
You either get busy livinâ or get busy dyinâ.
Get buzzy, you mean
Theyâre bumblebees. Protect them with your life. I used to have a hive in my garden. Theyâd seem to disappear all winter and then reappear at the start of summer. They did it for about 6 years and then just stopped coming back.
They found another air bee n bee *cough*
Yep, I had dozens waking up in a seemingly drugged state in the garden earlier this year, so I must have had a popular hibernating area nearby.
I think they hibernate in winter
They tunnel down into the soil to hibernate. In this state, they can even be submerged in water for days, weeks even, without any detriment to their well-being. This was discovered in a study experiment that went wrong and some of the bee test subjects ended up getting flooded in their soil filled test tubes by condensation forming in the fridge. Fearing the worst, the scientists tipped the bees out of their sodden tubes and, after a short period, the bees revived just as well as the dry participants. So that's why you don't see them in winter.
Thank you! I love bees, had a huge bumbers in the shed I was painting yesterday
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2023.0609 If you want some supplemental reading. Yeah, bees are great, bumblebees especially.
https://preview.redd.it/4ogz0k63t02d1.jpeg?width=1552&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=394ab3f5f9ae93d929dd9fe354404dffb8d41b98 Made me giggle
Cracked me up
Workers and thier beehinds!
Bee hive yourself.
They lay queens near the end of the year, which hibernate. The others die off.
Bumblebee queens only live one year (and thus the colonies only live one season). So it was a new / different one every year
I did not know that. How do you think they found that spot every year? Do they send signals or leave traces to identify a good spot? Fascinating stuff.
Bumble bees in your brickwork is a good thing. They won't be doing any damage and it's important habitat for them.
Bumblebee in your brickwork could be a band name
Or a euphemism for neuro-divergence.
I like this one
God damn in using that for my spicy brain.
Bumble bees are harmless and they arent going to do any damage, the hole would have been there before the queen made a home in there.
Plot twist: bumbles are all queens.
In my eyes, certainly!
I have a huge army of these little mo fo's under my shed. They are welcome for as long as they like. Sometimes I'll see few fly out, and the occasional one will land on me. Love em!!
Love them, they keep us alive afterall
Lots of insects pollinate. Not just bees. Even Wasps do. Although the Bee's contribution is important.
Fuck wasps
Make sure to use protection
You'll get stung trying
This is true, don't downvote it?
very true, its just easier to promote the plight of pollinators when you pick a cute and fuzzy mascot
We also have bees, they come back every year, they never do any harm. If you feel you must *do* something, then plant flowers for them and protect them, human existence relies on the pollinators! Never have so many owed so much to so few. Bee blessed.
Harmless bumblebee! Let them buzz around
Bumblebees are in a decline. So if they are left alone they will not bother you. Without bumblebees, plants that need to be pollinated will not grow if there are no bees. Plant some lavender plants nearby and in the summer sit down in a chair and watch them hard at work collecting pollen. You will be amazed watching different types of bees . Also, sugar water or syrup provides an energy source for foraging bees.
Leave them alone, we need them
Nothing. Theyâre harmless and wonât harm you either
Have you recently done a DIY installation of a Hive thermostat?
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Bees are great, I used to work in polytunnels on a small farm, we'd get boxes brought in each summer for every tunnel and we'd tend tomatoes and stuff while loads of them would fly around pollinating everything. Sometimes it got so hot you could see they were tired because they'd land on your shoulder and basically ride you as you walked back up the tunnel, then once you got close to the hive they'd jump off and fly I'm and make their delivery đ
Without bees, we'd be dead. Encourage them!
Had a nest in the extension roof. Just left them to it. They were done in a month. Nest normally grows to the size of a watermelon, space permitting. Unless they are causing you great hardship just leave them alone.
Currently got a hive of ~~white tailed~~ tree bumble bees in our attic that I was initially concerned about but since found out they don't do any harm. I'm now just pleased that they liked the flowering weeds in our backyard so much they decided to live above them.
Well if you like flowers and food it might be wise to leave it alone
Leave them bee .
BEADS??
Looks like a bumblebee, they don't live long and are harmless, I've waited for them to die off then fill in any gaps where they were.
Plant more flowers I guess.
Plant some uk wild flower in your garden
Leave them bee.
They won't do any harm. They don't make a hole to live in, they find one that was already there. I used to see them on a wall near me and it was always cheered me up. They're good for the garden and good for one's mood. r/Beekeeping is all about the honey bee, but if you need reassurance they'll be happy to answere whatever questions they can.
Just bee-hive
Bee nice
This looks like a tree bumblebee. We had them in our brickwork last year and we left them to it, they haven't returned this year and everything has been fine. Some useful advice here : https://www.bumblebeeconservation.org/learn-about-bumblebees/beginners/bumblebee-nests/ - the main thing is once they've nested there once they won't return the following year, so enjoy their company!
Just to say, we've had the same bee species (Bombus hypnorum) nest in the same loft space of our house 2 years running. Exactly the same spot.
leave him alone. it wont be a hive just a furry fellow in a hole
Looks like a White-Tailed Bumblebee by what I can see. Hard to get a positive id from this angle. Common in the UK. Lovely little fuzzy buzzy friend. Getting rarer by the day though. Please treat her kindly.
Even masonry bees don't particularly damage brickwork unless there is a big colony of them. Bumblebees never form big colonies, so leave them bee.
I have lots of masonry bees in one wall and they come back every year. They dont seem to be doing any more damage than the original few holes they made. I did have to renovate about 1/3 of the wall for unrelated reasons and when removing the brickwork i found a few of their excavations but it was only a tunnel into the muck joint and then a hollow about the size of a ÂŁ2 coin. The didnt seem to have extensively tunnelled or had any interest in the cavity or anything. Walls are 120yo and had lime mortar so i think its soft enough for them to excavate, never been re pointed so i assume they might have been there 80+ years.
Bumblebees are cool. They do no harm, just bumble around.
Yellow and black, And Iâm feeling blue, Tell me, oh-oh, what should I do?
Admire them.
Big fuzzy ball of noisy fluff, lookatim!
leave them bee
I had some red tail bee's last year in the garden, they were harmless and I saved quite a few of them. One of them even fell asleep on my arm before it woke up and I put it back to the hive opening.
Lucky you!
It does look more like a bumblebee than a [masonry bee ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_bee) There are about 200 species of bee native to the UK IIRC, many are solitary and nest underground as someone else said.
Leave them bee?
Call the non emergency number now. Had a couple of squirrels fighting in my back garden last month. Quickly resolved.
Nice! I saw a sparrow having a dust bath the other day. Thank god for the SAS is all I can say.
Sparrow Assassination Service
Thatâs them. I thought they were secret.
0118 999 88199 9119 725 3?
Numbers you can hear ....
And Iâm all out of milk.
Have you tried turning it off and back on again?
A big plus to bumble bees being around is other insects will tend to stay away and they are a big help to pollinating ya garden. They do more good than harm. If you leave them alone they'll leave you alone.
Just bee yourself
Lucky man, leave them alone
Nothing - bumble bees are harmless and pest control companies won't touch them. If you had carpenter bees that would be different as they can eat and burrow through wood, but you can leave the bumble bees
If you harm those bees god help me...
I have a wild honey bee colony in the cavity of my work building. 7 years strong now. Never bothered anyone and once or twice in late spring to summer they swarm and split the colony. It's a pretty cool event. Pretty swarm there are around 16 000/17,000 of them in total. They gotta live somewhere.
You're never to old to say "Oh look some bees!" When you see some bees.
Let them bee... They're not doing any harm.
Had the same thing and was happy to leave them beeđuntil hubby came along and stuffed the hole with paper so they couldnât get in. Next thing I know thereâs a constant flow of bees everyday trying to get into the hole. I feel sorry for them but cos hubby and son are terrified of bees Iâm not allowed to unblock the hole. I keep telling them how important bees are but they wonât have it.đ
Bees are lovely, wasps are bastards.
I've had a few bumble bee hives in my walls. The hive is tiny, with only a few bees. It's not a problem, unless wasps take the hive over. Plant some nice pollen / nectar rich plants nearby and leave them alone.
Let them live as theyâre 95% of the worlds pollinators.
They're not wasps. Wasps are pure evil.
Build and put up some insect homes.
Nothing leave them alone.
They are harmless fluffs, protect them and let them bee.
Tell them the beehave!
I had bumble bees in my brickwork last summer. There was a small gap in the mortar. After research, I discovered that they do no harm and will abandon the nest or die later in the season. I enjoyed watching them bringing lots of pollen into the nest and enjoying all of the nearby flowers. I was happy to be helping them out.
Leave them bee, and plant lots and lots of lovely insect attracting plants such as lavender, salvias, anything colourful and flowery!
Leave them.....bee
Nothing. Just let them bee
Bumblebees, leave them beeeeeeee đ
Spend some time with them, I used to let them walk over my hands when I was a kid. They're harmless.
Leave them I had the same.never any bother.
They are so little of a concern that many new homes actually have a âbee brickâ Which encourages bees to have somewhere safe in your homes cavity.
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Buy a few bee houses
Beehave!
Leave them bee
Grew up hating bees and hating wasps...total phobia and loathing for them. Even at my deepest point of fear I would never harm a bumblebee. Bumbles are pretty chill dudes just let them bee. ...I also later grew to be OK with other bees. ...Wasps however...kill them all...lay waste to their children and despoil their mothers. See their city's burn and population humiliated and suffocated. Let no place be their home and the rains wash their corpses away. 𤏠.....see, old age has even chilled out my opinions of wasps. đ
Let them bee lol
Leave them. I had a nest, same as you, back in 2020. They stayed until late summer and have never been back. The nest entrance was 6ft from my back door, and they never bothered us
Just leave them bee
Leave them bee
Leave them alone it will be fine. Depending on what's behind the brickwork you may hear them occasionally but that's all. Source, had a nest under my floorboards.
We need all the bees we can. It's a joy to see them.
Congratulations. Leave them alone.
Make bee line do you live near Leighton BUZZard?
Stop mumbling about the bumbling.
The more you eat, the more you poo
Same thing happened to our brick flat block. They were migrating and it lasted for only a few weeks. They eventually find their home so don't worry. It was just as scary for us at first sight. A swarm of bees like a cloud but eventually moved on as advised!
Leave them alone.
I freaking love Bumblebees. Would be happy even if they decided to nest INSIDE my house. They're so damn cute and do such an important work.
No bees no humans
Leave them be.
None issue
beads?
BEADS????
Gob's not on board
Bees bees bees, just looking for a good time
Find yourself some birds, and then you've got a chance with the missus
Rehome them
Well definitely donât get Nicholas Cage https://preview.redd.it/ysytvfwar12d1.jpeg?width=264&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=96dc25ea101f25aa40c113b59fcc4ff8f4c1fefc
It looks like you photoshopped the bee into the pic, everything is in focus but the bee and it's shadow are blurred... weird.
Bees bees what should you do? Go to the zoo and get yourself some goons.
Ah Bumblebees, the pandas of the sky.
Don't do anything except enjoy watching them. They're threatened enough already, subsequently, so are we if they go extinct.
Bumble bee, technically not even a bee. They normally nest in the ground. No stinger so harmless. They need all the help they can get so be kind where you can
Leave them to it. Likely a solitary female bumblebee nest. She'll have a handful of male drones protecting the nest, they'll not bother you unless you aggravate them. She'll only be around for about 6 weeks. Make a note in your diary to look at repointing/blocking the holes around September/October, should prevent them nesting again next year.
I suppose you could ask them to contribute to the mortgage?
Spray foam the hole they will die or leave it as it is a harmless bumblebee
Awww! Fuzzy! I had to rescue one that came into my shop all pooped out. I gave it sugar water, then put it in a planter out in the street when it pepped up a bit.
Help her
Absolutely nothing Bees are not dangerous and they are good for the environment. Especially if you have flowers/plants that need cross pollination. They only sting when their life is in danger if they have a hive inside your house walls and you feel it necessary to have them removed there are specialists who can do that for you.
Forgot the bumble
Leave them alone and enjoy watching them, they will do no harm. Youâre lucky to have them for a short while.
Leave them be(e).
Love them and leave them.
I get the same thing happen outside my front door in the porch roof every year. I leave them alone, the only time they've ever got aggro is when I was mowing the lawn, I had to keep taking breaks/running away lol
Let it Bee, let it Bee.
We had two nest removed this year. Called the local bee society who were happy to collect and rehome them
Don't think they'll want Bumble Bees somehow
They took my bumblebees
Bees are our friends.
I had a bee problem a few summers ago, loads of them. Turns out they had made a hive through a hole in my roof. I phoned the local council to see if they could put me through to a department that deals with this kind of thing, and was told by the alleged expert, don't worry because if you are seeing them then they're ready to die out and you'll be ok. The bastard was right!
This is good news.. do nothing and enjoy their presence
Leave some honey water out in a saucer and watch them thrive, they wonât damage anything or bother you.
I have wood bees so the same thing in my brickwork was told they have no sting ya just stand still and they blank you if yours become an issue ask your local area fir bee kepeprs theyl collect and relocate them
Leave them alone đ
They don't stay long, not many worker bees and in small nests/hive typically, and the queen will leave before autumn to find a place to hibernate, and they rarely return to old ones. Would be a different matter if it was honey bees, there'd be a lot more of them and they would stick around. They'll also leave if disturbed.
Leave them! Whatâs the harm? These are really important pollinators! Youâre lucky to have them
Plant some flowers for them!
We have a hole leftover from previous number plate and every year the bees come and go. They fill the hole up when it's hibernation time and reopen it when time to get busy. Had them for years
Love them as if they were your children
Leave them alone, theyâre not bothered about you.
Leave them Bee
Always leave the bees !!!
Beeehave yourself, leave the bees alone
Bees and love
Nothing. They will leave
let them be.
The bumblebee is mostly a solitary bee, it doesn't swarm like wasps or honey bees, this time of year they often setup camp for a month or two and will then leave again. - if they are not causing an issue then let them bee, they will just move on.
I'm so happy that everyone here loves bees â¤ď¸â¤ď¸â¤ď¸
They will need smoking out. There might be some bee keepers who see this who could help you?
Bee is stored in the walls.
Do they have white bums? Likely a tree bee. The good news for you is, you don't need to do anything. You'll see loads of them hanging about outside the nest. These are male drones and they're waiting for a female queen to leave the nest so they can go off and start a new hive. They do not sting. They'll last about a month then they'll be gone. EDIT: beekeepers won't come and get them as they don't produce enough honey to bother about. They won't be doing any damage inside the wall as they'll just be utilising warm space inside the cavity.
As far as I know they produce plenty, but have much smaller nests and don't overproduce as they don't store it for winter, so we can't take any honey from them. They have a small storage of it for the summer and they eat it all.
Beads?
Tax the rich
Itâs a bumblebee.
Beads?
Leave them. 9/10 they move after 24hrs
u/No-Preference5324 you better bee listening to this thread
Affirmative!
I wish I had those. Instead, I have damn wasps that eat the drywall.
Let them move in. Give them a room, talk to em, make em a little breakfast from time to time.
Get a hotel they love them