Bees Under Siding

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.

Bees under siding.

If so hundreds of them could be holed up behind your siding. Ron hazelton shows you how to easily get rid of them. Run back into the house hopefully unscathed. I might add that they aren t the lumbering critters that wasps are.

This insect dust can be purchased. I m guessing you have yellow jackets not bees. 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.

Rile them and they will attack. Locate the entrance through which the bees are entering your siding. 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.

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. Basically just make it an undesirable place to live and they will leav. The honeycomb and bees can be stored in a commercial hive until it can be delivered to a local beekeeper. Bees will usually sequester themselves away in overhangs cracks window and door frames and under siding basically anywhere they can build a cozy nest.

Apply a professional grade insect dust to the entrances you found. 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. Bees and wasps can damage wood on exteriors and make nests under siding not to mention the stinging. Yellow jackets are aggressive and have a fierce sting.