Bee issue

[SAFC_Jack]

Spotted a bee going into a weep hole on the back wall of the house - Google seems to suggest that it is a masonry bee and are often harmless, but can cause issues.

Anyone had any experience of this?

 

[heroesof73]

Just like the mags on here it needs to buzz off!

 

[yamar1]

Spotted a bee going into a weep hole on the back wall of the house - Google seems to suggest that it is a masonry bee and are often harmless, but can cause issues.

Anyone had any experience of this?

Will be building a hive in your wall. Just let them do their thing and when they are gone in the winter cement the hole up.

 

[TheWanderer]

Spotted a bee going into a weep hole on the back wall of the house - Google seems to suggest that it is a masonry bee and are often harmless, but can cause issues.

Anyone had any experience of this?

Had two nests last years, only thing you can do is to let them crack on and they’ll eventually fuck off and apparently they never return to old nesting grounds so should be bee free in the future.

 

[TopCat]

Will be building a hive in your wall. Just let them do their thing and when they are gone in the winter cement the hole up.

Or cement it up now and teach the fuckers a lesson

 

[yamar1]

Or cement it up now and teach the fuckers a lesson

Ahh thats not nice.

 

[TopCat]

Ahh thats not nice.

I'd let one bee escape, cement up the rest and tell the survivor to "tell the other bees what you've just seen"

End of bee problem

 

[yamar1]

I'd let one bee escape, cement up the rest and tell the survivor to "tell the other bees what you've just seen"

End of bee problem

 

[Motor City Cobra]

Spotted a bee going into a weep hole on the back wall of the house - Google seems to suggest that it is a masonry bee and are often harmless, but can cause issues.

Anyone had any experience of this?

As a kid I seen wood lice coming out of some brick work in the garden.
So I filled an old fairly liquid bottle with boiling water and squeezed it into the gap..100’s of the bassa a came out. Scolded!

that’ll learn them I thought

Ps-no I’m not a serial killer.

 

[Stubbs ftm]

I'd let one bee escape, cement up the rest and tell the survivor to "tell the other bees what you've just seen"

End of bee problem

Nah the little sods will just make their way inside his house then and cause ructions

 

[SAFC_Jack]

Don’t think you’re meant to Dover weep holes are you? Will just cause damp in the walls.

Probs going to the get the council out - apparently these type of bees can be removed and aren’t protected like some other species.

 

[HellsBells]

We saw bees going into an air brick a couple of years ago. Think they were bumble bees though. We left them and haven’t seen them since. No bother to the house.

 

[West_Winger]

Masonry bees don’t have stingers or anything like that. They basically bore little holes then fuck off. They don’t nest in huge numbers but they are sole animals. They will still come back even if you cement the holes up as they can bore through them.

 

[Grammar Police]

Silicone the holes up.

That stops the fuckers.

 

[RokerLegend]

Burn your house down. That will learn them

 

[Quinn The Eskimo]

Don’t think you’re meant to Dover weep holes are you? Will just cause damp in the walls.

Probs going to the get the council out - apparently these type of bees can be removed and aren’t protected like some other species.

Or just stop being a massive fanny if it's a mason bee it will be solitary so you aren't going to have a massive hive to contend with and it's hardly going to cause any structural damage to your house.

 

[vote quimby]

Wish I had bees living on my property. All I get is wasps. Splatted 2 wasp nests already this week in a bird house I made.

 

[Shandy drinker]

Spotted a bee going into a weep hole on the back wall of the house - Google seems to suggest that it is a masonry bee and are often harmless, but can cause issues.

Anyone had any experience of this?

Mason bees were on some nature programme the other night
have big bother with wasps burglaing their nests

 

[Cypher]

Shit in it's hive.

 

[Deleted User 11453]

Spotted a bee going into a weep hole on the back wall of the house - Google seems to suggest that it is a masonry bee and are often harmless, but can cause issues.

Anyone had any experience of this?

Yes I have spotted some recently.

They don’t seem to be any trouble.

I thought that they were wasps at first.