Honey Bees In My Siding

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

Honey bees in my siding.

You know you ve got honey bees in your house. Honey bees are typically removed by rehoming the hive rather than killing the bees. To ensure all the bees are killed you first must make sure to locate all the nests. All that wear and tear on your siding will set you back in electric bills because your siding has poor insulation.

Make sure any honeyed siding is thoroughly cleaned or the honey smell will attract new bees. Your bee problem is possibly a cause of old warping and rotting siding. If possible mark off any entrance holes you find so that you can easily identify them later. Occasionally foraging bees may enter rooms of a building rather than using their outside entrance.

Since the nest is in your siding you have never seen it only the bees entering and exiting. Locate the entrance through which the bees are entering your siding. You hear buzzing you start seeing honey bees active around your property after some searching you find bees flying to and from a particular spot an opening in your wall or soffit a crack in the foundation under some 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.

You may not know for sure how many nests are inside your siding or how large the nests are. Honey bees living within a building do not cause structural damage though if abandoned their waxy comb and honey will melt and foul wall board siding and insulation. To get rid of bees in siding insecticide must be applied around areas where bees are entering or exiting. D force is an insecticide in a pressurized can.

If you d rather go the chemical route you can use d force hpx to get rid of the ground bees in your yard. Bees need little more than a 1 4 inch gap between siding or trim in order to find access to the inside of a wall. Observe the bees during the afternoon as that is the most active time of day for yellow jackets. Now is the time to fix that problem by replacing your siding with brand new virgin vinyl siding that can withstand the test of time.

If the nest is accessible call a beekeeper for removal. 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. This is different than a swarm.