Help, there are bees in the wall of our house!

[ChrisH]

Scary! Glad to hear that they have gone now!

One year I had bees in the wall by my front door, but, luckily, they were bumblebees and harmless. On the advice of a beekeeper, once they had gone - of their own accord - I filled in the hole they were using and they didn't return.

Chris

[Karen]

My family has kept bees, it is amazing to see when they "swarm." That's how you can get a wall full or a great ball of bees in a short period of time. The new queen is born and needs to establish her own hive, so she leaves, trailed by hundreds or thousands of workers. Wherever she lands, they congregate. Bees in this state usually won't harm you, I've had them fly into me and bounce off.

Do examine where you saw them going in and out and seal it off completely.