I Have Honey Bees In My Roof

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I have honey bees in my roof. They are a great place for the bees because they are elevated have insulation and most predictors have no way of getting to them. It is important to know that when you have a hive inside a wall the honey and the bees have to come out. If bees are making nests in your walls or attic you may find dead bees in windowsills or near doors. If there are nests in the wall you may hear buzzing from all the bee activity.

You may not know for sure how many nests are inside your siding or how large the nests are. Honey bees buzzing around the roof line eave facial freeze block or a garage wall fence jacuzzi or a similar structure likely indicates a beehive exists. Honey bees in roof spaces are not nearly as common as you might expect in fact we don t come across honey bees in roof spaces that often. This always attracts more bees.

Ask for the bees to be housed. Generally honey bees don t colonise roofs when they are flying in beneath tiles they more often than not are colonising a cavity wall or an old dismantled chimney stack that is hidden beneath the tiles or possibly a soffit. If you get to close to the entrance to the nest or obstruct it. To ensure all the bees are killed you first must make sure to locate all the nests.

If you ve just seen bees flitting in and out but don t really know where they are living it s obvious that you need to first find out where they are. If the bees are not in a very noticeable area it is likely they have been there a good while. Unborn larva can often have foul orders that can permeate through the walls. Is a likely indicator.

In the summer months its common to have honey leaking out of the walls and roofs. Follow the bees as they enter your house. A charge may be made for this service. Honeycomb left in walls or roofs should be removed to prevent meltdown of honey.

Nests under roof eaves or in the ground. Bees can make nests in tricky spots like the ground in the siding of your home and other hard to reach areas. Honey bees in roof spaces. We understand that getting the bees away from your home is important to you.

Bees get into corners and spaces between walls or other structures like attics. Bees inside an eave roofing system or attic is by far the most common place we find bee hives. Since the nest is in your siding you have never seen it only the bees entering and exiting. I remember turning up on a sunday morning having no real idea of what to be expecting other than that we had been told that there were some honey bees in a flat roof and that they needed to be removed.

The first step towards removal of a beehive is spotting the nest. Thankfully the roof was being replaced so we were allowed free access to it. Bees will not normally attack you unless they feel threatened e g. Buzzing noises in the wall.