shevtheblue
Well-Known Member
Ah thanks for that. You can see loads of them buzzing about outside and a few neighbours have been round telling me to get them sorted. The websites for beekeepers seem to say they won't do anything but I'll reach out to them anyway.Bee keeper the way to go if they are honey bees (small dark coloured not bright yellow) and the sooner the better as the nest can get quite large I.e 1000+ bees.
If they are bumblebees not a great deal you can do other than destroy the nest but it’s generally not advised due their declining numbers. Bumblebees lifecycle is only short and the nest size is fairly small (100-400 bees max) and not aggressive. If you do see a small swarm of bumblebees outside a nest then they are reaching the end of their lifecycle and mating, a few weeks after nest dies and the future queens go to make a nest somewhere else. All the other workers die which I think is what you are seeing with the dead bees.
We had the same problem last year (even posted it on here).
Couple years ago when my daughter has just started crawling, she was going round the house and we had just had it painted so they'd left the doors and windows open. A bee came in and she picked it up and tried to eat it or summit, stung her right on the lip. We now have a 6 month old who's started to crawl so we're a bit paranoid!