If possible mark off any entrance holes you find so that you can easily identify them later.
Bees under siding of house.
Bees dance to communicate between each other.
Bees will usually sequester themselves away in overhangs cracks window and door frames and under siding basically anywhere they can build a cozy nest.
Bees getting under siding leave them.
Sharing your home with bees is never a good idea.
They build their homes under your porch eaves and cracks in your walls.
Common places for bees to hide and build nests include overhangs cracks window frames shutters door frames and underneath the siding.
If wasps bees or hornets have built some sort of nest in the siding of your home you can do something about it.
I have what i think are yellow jackets getting under the siding at the base of my house.
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.
It would be hard to get a spray in there as i don t think it would go deep enough due to gravity.
Follow where they seem to disappear into the side of your house.
Locate the entrance through which the bees are entering your siding.
This can make removal more difficult or dangerous but also more imperative.
Bees can be annoying or even hazardous to us when they build their home near our own home.
Bees need little more than a 1 4 inch gap between siding or trim in order to find access to the inside of a wall.
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.
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.
During summer a top priority of most homeowners is to eliminate bees from the yard and property.
Gaps in house siding whether they occur from warped vinyl siding or faulty home construction present the perfect place for wasps to burrow into and start building a hive away from the elements.
Blocking their flight entrance in not wise because it forces the bees to find alternative exits which may be into the interior of your home around a light fixture for example.
Observe the bees during the afternoon as that is the most active time of day for yellow jackets.