Bees Under Siding

Observe the bees during the afternoon as that is the most active.

Bees under siding.

This is the simplest way to get bees to leave a hive that they have started in a home. Yellow jackets are amazingly fast. 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 to eliminate because you won t have to touch them directly. Ron hazelton shows you how to easily get rid of them.

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. The honeycomb and bees can be stored in a commercial hive until it can be delivered to a local beekeeper. This insect dust can be purchased. Apply a professional grade insect dust to the entrances you found.

If so hundreds of them could be holed up behind your siding. Bees will usually sequester themselves away in overhangs cracks window and door frames and under siding basically anywhere they can build a cozy nest. Yellow jackets are aggressive and have a fierce sting. Start by pouring the mixture of regular water and soap down into the nest.

Rile them and they will attack. How to get rid of yellowjackets in siding. 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. Next pour the boiling water into the nest opening.

I m guessing you have yellow jackets not bees. I might add that they aren t the lumbering critters that wasps are. 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. Run back into the house hopefully unscathed.