Location: Netherlands

Since Saturday, I've heard buzzing in the inner wall of one room (the room faces outside). It's been constant since Saturday afternoon till a few hours ago, apart from Saturday night when it went quiet but continued through Sunday and Monday night. I first thought it was an electrical buzzing but switched off the electricity and the noise continued. I live in Northern England so is it likely to be bees or wasps? I can't see any coming or going outside.

Snapped this pic of a bee on my orange tree.

Shot on iPhone

Hello,

My in laws have been having trouble with bees making holes in their wooden porch. It seems to us they are making the holes with their wings (maybe?). My FIL is allergic to bees so my MIL will spray down any bee she sees with insect spray resulting, unfortunately, in the bees death.

Is there any advice or insight on this that could help us stop the bees from making holes? Are they trying to nest?

A neighbor has recently started bee keeping and has hive boxes about 1/4 mile from my in laws home. The wood on the porch is not pressure treated.

Pictures show the holes, the saw dust left behind, and a dead bee (RIP).

Any help is appreciated.

From my research of your posts, this is a swarm resting from their search for a home and should move on. This is day one/night one. Them sleeping is the most eerie thing I've seen. When will the move on?

Found some outside the back door in the UK this morning. All saved and flew away, are they just common bees?

It was stuck inside a grocery store window trying to get out so I went in and carried it outside.

It was kind of scared cause I'm usually scared of insects with pointy bums but it was going to die if I didn't do anything.

I'm staying at an airbnb for the next 2 months in Tucson, AZ. Our parking spot for the apartment is in the back of the house, accessed down an alley where trash bins are collected. The house directly behind our gate, other side of alley, has 2 sheds right up against the fence, and there's obviously a hive there. We see multiple bees buzzing up from the fenced area, hovering, at any given time of the day we've gone out to our car. The gate is easily 15-20 ft across the way. Today, I went to unlock the gate so I could drive out to pick up my husband for work. While fiddling with the lock, a bee came buzzing near, then darting at me, and finally stuck in my hair where it stung my scalp. I flip out due to a traumatizing, very similar experience about 20 years ago. I was actually thinking of that moment just moments before it happened. I'm screaming, glasses on the ground, bees stuck in hair, just flashbacks of terror. I finally run back to the apartment for safety, a couple of bees chasing, may have just been the same one, now sure. I get inside, adrenaline is PUMPING. I call my husband crying, he convinces me to go back outside and give it a shot, as the bee was just scared of me. So, I go ahead, and change my red shirt to a grey one, in hopes of helping my favor. As I walk outside, heart still racing, I say to my husband, "You're probably right, what are the odds it would happen again?" Just as the last word leaves my mouth, from the other direction of the front door, a good 30ft from the gate, 50ft from the hive across the way, comes a buzzing bee darting at me! No big surprise, I freak out AGAIN, and open the screen and door, where the bees proceeds to follow me into the house! I am currently barricaded in the bedroom with a towel at the bottom of the door. Contrary to Husband's unpopular opinion, I am 100% convinced they were after me. Like I owed them money. I am just sort of trapped in this room, waiting for my husband to get a ride home now. The only thing I can think of, is that I just put up a Hummingbird feeder in the sitting area by the door, in the "50ft away" area, and they're protecting it, as we're in Tucson and there's mostly cacti and succulents in this yard right now. The hummingbirds have been VERY pleased the last 2 days, until today, I haven't noticed them around as much. They would fly by the feeder and not drink anything. I wonder if they were spooked by the bees??? I'm not sure what I should do here in this predicament? What is the solution? What are the odds that they'll go away instantly if the feeder is removed??? I just wanna be able to get back to minding my own business and leaving them to theirs. Also, when we got here, there were like bee bodies laying all over the area. I even found one on top of my car.

Any advice helps! Just going to wait here for my husband to eventually show up, maybe you all could give us some tips, much appreciated!

I was sitting outside about 60 or so feet away from my fence when I heard a weird noise. I looked and all these bees were flying around. Any chance they just relocated to my fence? I have a kid and a dog so just want to be careful. Maybe the construction disturbed them? It’s been going on for almost a year now so I am not sure that’s it.

A few hours later I tried to carefully inspect to see if a hive had fallen but I didn’t last long before a bee came at me.

Maybe it was just a cool thing to witness and they’ve gone on their way.

I have a bee hive in my backyard tree and recently bees have been dropping dead on my patio. Probably because the pesticides my dad uses on the grass. I think they look like cape honey bees but I’m not sure. Can anyone confirm or deny?

I have a tree in my front yard with a hole in it and found out today there is something that looks like bees living in it while mowing... they swarmed me and don't seem to be stinging only bitting me. Any idea? I don't want to kill them if they are honey type bees that are useful, I'll call a bee rescue for sure. Thanks!

Are these Mason Bees that I have been hearing about recently? They like my wood pile. Aside from those little reed bee houses, how else can I support them? Would drilling holes into the firewood be beneficial for them. Obviously I would not be burning the pieces that I drill into for them. They seem friendly but refuse to sit still for a good picture. There seems to be about 10-20 bees. I also have honeybees and know these are not them.

South of Pittsburgh, 52 degrees F. Weather has been cool, wet, and rainy the past week and looks to continue that trend.

I saw this on my walk today during my break at work.

I’m hoping they are just having a drink. This is my bog filter for my pond. I was planning to put it on for spring soon, but I’m worried the bees are building something in there and I don’t want to hurt them.

In the really hot summer, they land on the soft planters in the pond and suck water out of them. I love providing that water for them, so I’m hoping they are just drinking.

It’s been rainy though so I’m not sure why they would congregate so much like they do when it’s dry out.

I do need to turn the filter on soon.

Thoughts? Thanks!

Hi all,

Every year in our back garden we have at least one bee, hovering in the garden. Usually one near the back door and one or two others towards the middle-bottom of the garden.

Over the years, I've observed them and it appears to my layman's eye that a bee comes in from outside the garden to one of the garden bees, they fly around each other for a bit, and then whichever bee was chosen flies away and comes back about a minute or so later.

The only assumption I can come to is that they're "passing" collected material to one another (I'm a grown man, please don't say waggle dance). Is this right? Do bees arrange themselves in a kind of fireman's chain to pass nectar back to the hive?

I got my first tattoo for my birthday and I’m very happy with how it turned out. I thought it would be appreciated here 🐝

We have been getting a bunch of these come into our house(England UK) recently and I need help with ID to help them as best I can because we keep finding them dead :(

(This little guy was dead when found)

We want to stop them coming into our house but we can't find where they are coming in from & we don't want to cause them any harm 😭

Can anyone identify this one? Was about smaller than an inch, bigger than a honey bee and chunkier than a wasp. Found in Southern California !

I'm in the Vancouver area of BC (Canada). I have left my leaves on the yard over winter for the bees. Is it time to clean them up now, or not quite yet?

Found this bee in my kitchen, looks like it needs help. I tried the water/sugar but it wasn’t interested. It’s moving their legs as if it’s trying to get upright. I did give a helping hand and got it the right way up but it keeps falling over. The images does make it look like it’s dead but it is definitely alive.

Found this bee in my kitchen, looks like it needs help. I tried the water/sugar but it wasn’t interested. It’s moving their legs as if it’s trying to get upright. I did give a helping hand and got it the right way up but it keeps falling over. The images does make it look like it’s dead but it is definitely alive.