But perhaps you have decided that these particular bees need to be eliminated.
How do you kill bees under siding.
As the bees travel in and out of the nests they will carry the insecticide powder you sprayed at the entry point to other bees in the nest.
Basically just make it an undesirable place to live and they will leav.
Remember if any traces of honeycomb are left behind the rotting honey will emit a foul odor.
The first thing you ll have to do of course is to locate the nest or nests.
You do not want to get stung by 500 bees because you didn t have the right gear.
They aren t aggressive but this is happening right by the most used door of the house so it s probably just a matter of time before i piss them off.
I ve also had one get in the house as i was going in the door.
It s probably not the front door remember bees don t have.
If the breed you are trying to kill has a queen bee she will also die.
Take note of where the bees are entering and exiting your house.
If possible mark off any entrance holes you find so that you can easily identify them later.
Eventually all the bees will be dead due to the spread of the powder.
This is the simplest way to get bees to leave a hive that they have started in a home.
The bees will get stuck in the small amount of syrup but won t drown.
This diy trap offers a no kill solution so you ll have to check the trap daily and carefully remove the bees away from your home.
Exterminators usually only kill bees and will not remove the nest itself or the dead bees so keep this in mind.
Follow where they seem to disappear into the side of your house.
If you do hire an exterminator make sure that you remove all the dead bees and all of the nest.
Chances are unless you have x ray vision you won t know exactly where they are but you can take a clue from your six legged friends.
Additionally while honeybees and bumblebees are excellent pollinators yellow jackets are somewhat less so.
While it isn t encouraged to use a trap that kills bees you can add enough liquid to drown them you feel it s truly necessary.
My house has vinyl siding.
Observe the bees during the afternoon as that is the most active time of day for yellow jackets.
Where the siding meets the concrete foundation of the house bees are going up there and i assume they re building a hive of some sort.
Typically bees are also much less aggressive than yellow jackets.
They do not often visit flowers and their exteriors are much less hairy than that of bees meaning they neither pick up nor spread much pollen except incidentally.