Bees Under Siding

Run back into the house hopefully unscathed.

Bees under siding.

Rile them and they will attack. Yellow jackets are aggressive and have a fierce sting. 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. Observe the bees during the afternoon as that is the most active.

Next pour the boiling water into the nest opening. The honeycomb and bees can be stored in a commercial hive until it can be delivered to a local beekeeper. 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. Start by pouring the mixture of regular water and soap down into the nest.

This insect dust can be purchased. Locate the entrance through which the bees are entering your siding. Apply a professional grade insect dust to the entrances you found. Bees and wasps can damage wood on exteriors and make nests under siding not to mention the stinging.

How to get rid of yellowjackets in siding. I m guessing you have yellow jackets not bees. If so hundreds of them could be holed up behind your siding. Yellow jackets are amazingly fast.

Bees will usually sequester themselves away in overhangs cracks window and door frames and under siding basically anywhere they can build a cozy nest. I might add that they aren t the lumbering critters that wasps are. This is the simplest way to get bees to leave a hive that they have started in a home. Ron hazelton shows you how to easily get rid of them.