Bees In My Attic

This is when the home owner usually calls us and claims that there are bees in the house but they don t know where they are coming from.

Bees in my attic.

Of concern was the fact that the gentleman needed to have some plumbing work done soon. Identify bees by their fur and round bodies to rule out wasps and hornets. I received the following query regarding a bumblebee nest in the attic. Here is my response.

Sometimes when a colony of bees first invade an attic through vent holes a few bees will become disoriented and separated from the rest of the colony and end up inside the living area of the home. By removing the bee hives or nests you are able to prevent them from coming back to your attic. We get asked all the time. Bees have hair and tend to be rounder while wasps and hornets have smooth exteriors and tend to have pointer thoraxes.

They are a great place for the bees because they are elevated have insulation and most predictors have no way of getting to them. You can identify bees by examining their appearance. It is important to know that when you have a hive inside a wall the honey and the bees have to come out. Before you take action look at the bug carefully to see whether it s actually a bee.

After you are sure that all bees are killed you can remove the nest of these bees. However a bee s nest in the home. Bee nest removal ideas for attics. Unlike other pests that can infest an attic most bees are not known to eat wood or cause other structural damage to the home.

Remove the nest of bees. Bees inside an eave roofing system or attic is by far the most common place we find bee hives.