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No not some new B movie. In my garage has been a bumble bee nest. At least I think so. A few very big bees into / out of a hole in the wall since spring. Up until now I've left them alone but tonight I saw wasps entering / exiting same hole... bees fine, wasps less so especially as sweajnr likes to roam.
So do I have any options as I don't want to eradicate a bee nest but don't want to have a wasp nest either.
If you don't see anymore bees then the chances are the wasps have taken advantage of their absence and have built a next inside, or if the bees are still there they are doing some foraging and stealing honey.
If they have taken over get them removed by a pest controller, had a couple of wasps nest in my old house in the past, absolute pain.
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Thanks. I'm pretty sure I've got both.....
I sure i read somewhere that wasps voted for Brexit..............arseholes!
Do bees and wasps cohabit ? Doubt it.
Just seal the hole up?
Do you know the rugby team Wasps? Reckon they have a bee team?
built a [b]next[/b] inside
Can't they just keep them on the high street?
I can't imagine Wasps going up the road to play at Griffin Park.
Common Wasps eat flies, aphids, caterpillars and other invertebrates, making them an important insect-controlling predator.
Blocking the hole up is the main plan but bad for the bees. I was hoping someone would tell me the bees will fight off the wasps or similar.
Are you certain they are wasps? There are some weird looking bees around, you wouldn't get both bees and wasps cohabiting.
My "Uncle in Law" keeps quite a large number of hives and certainly last year lost a number of them to wasp invasion to the point where he was spending hours up at them every day attempting to catch and dispose of the wasps.
There is a threat of a species of Asian wasp getting into the UK. They've been spreading rapidly across the continent, and they predate bee colonies, and do enormous amounts of damage. Our regular Yellowjackets can be arse'oles, but they don't, AFAIK, go after bees, they prefer grubs and caterpillars and are generally good things to have around.
Unless you're allergic to their stings
I'm pretty sure they're wasps. I don't think they're cohabiting I think the wasps are after the honey but am surprised / grumpy the bees don't seem to be putting up much of a fight (that I can see). It sounds like my only solution is to block the entrance which will be bad for bees but means I won't get a wasp nest 20cm from my head every time I enter / exit the garage.
If you had honey bees building a hive in your garage, you'd know about it.
They sound like masonry bees to me. The wasps are more than likely after the grubs or the pollen that the bees fill the grub cells with. leave em alone. The nest is never going to be huge and or will disappear when the wasps deplete the food source. It's probably a no win scenario for the bees either way..
Does the leader answer to the name "Blackie Lawless"??
Are there more than 51 but less than 53 of them?
I used believed my older brother when I was younger that Bees made honey and Wasps made Marmite.
There's a type of bee that looks quite like a smallish wasp that hijacks other bees' nests (especially masonry bees) and nicks their honey.