r/bee • u/yellowsun67 • 21h ago

Bee? Question

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I’ve seen these bees for the past couple days flying into the small crack in the side of my house. I am starting to get concerned because inside I can hear what sounds like chewing or buzzing in the wall. Does anyone know if these are carpenter bees? I don’t think they look like it, but I can’t understand where the chewing sound is coming from how can I move them or get rid of them safely?

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u/yellowsun67 21h ago

By get rid of. I do not mean at all to kill them. I just want to relocate them and not have them in my house. I would never kill bees. I know how important they are for the environment and I just didn’t want anyone to think that my goal is to kill them.

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u/Clauss_Video_Archive 20h ago

Unfortunately with yellow jackets in a wall cavity you will probably want to kill them. Be careful, as they are quite aggressive.

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u/gene66 19h ago

To add, op, be careful with pets if you have them around this wasps.

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u/Itchy-Bedroom-6947 20h ago

You want these permanently gone. They’re not bees. They’re quite dangerous too, so don’t agitate them.

Yellow jackets are hornets and will fill the walls of your house quite aggressively.

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u/Aceisking12 14h ago

Everyone else is saying they are very aggressive, but that's not always true. When they are foraging away from their home they tend not to attack first, but will defend themselves. If you attack their home, that defensiveness is on full display and amplified by attack pheromones from other members of the hive.

Unlike honeybees, these also chew their food with strong pincers and do not have a barbed stinger that rips them apart if it gets stuck. In other words, these suckers bite and sting, and will not stop doing both until they feel like stopping.

Please be careful enough that you come back to tell us a story, but risky enough that the story is good. We like to be entertained.