Bees Under Siding

I m guessing you have yellow jackets not bees.

Bees under siding. Basically just make it an undesirable place to live and they will leav. Apply a professional grade insect dust to the entrances you found. If so hundreds of them could be holed up behind your siding. 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. Run back into the house hopefully unscathed. 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. Yellow jackets are aggressive and have a fierce sting.

Ron hazelton shows you how to easily get rid of them. Next pour the boiling water into the nest opening. Locate the entrance through which the bees are entering 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.

The honeycomb and bees can be stored in a commercial hive until it can be delivered to a local beekeeper. I might add that they aren t the lumbering critters that wasps are. Start by pouring the mixture of regular water and soap down into the nest. 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.

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. This is the simplest way to get bees to leave a hive that they have started in a home. Bees and wasps can damage wood on exteriors and make nests under siding not to mention the stinging.