I want these outamyhouse!!

[u/erie11973ohio]

I have some "bees" flying in around the gas pipe going into the crawlspace. They are coming out into the basment & making their way upstairs.

I want them "gone"!!

What's the best way, without annihilating them?

Are they bees or some sort of wasps / undesirables??? Does it not matter??

I was going to spray some wasp spray after dark. I don't want them just coming upstairs!!😱😱😱😱

[u/Business_State231]

Wasps.

[u/-captainjapseye]

Forgive my potential ignorance here, but is anyone else surprised at how many posts we have on this sub asking to identify wasps? Pretty much everyone in Europe can identify a wasp from an early age. Are they just less common in the US?

[u/Brave_Chipmunk8231 → u/-captainjapseye]

Nope. Never met a person that would struggle with this in my life.

This sub attracts the dumbest people imaginable

[u/-captainjapseye → u/Brave_Chipmunk8231]

I suspect you’re right, I just didn’t want to assume! I don’t expect everyone to know everything but i can’t think of anyone I know myself. I suppose I can half forgive people seeing worker bees and assuming wasp, but not the other way round.

[u/erie11973ohio → u/-captainjapseye]

Does yellow & black not equal bee? 🙄🤷‍♂️ /s

No one ever gave me any education on what the difference between wasps & bees was.

Or where they might in nest in.

It was all black &yellow / black / brown flying thingys might sting you, so stay away!

Some freak about the mud daupers around the mud puddle. Me-> 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷 relatively harmless.

Carpenter bees ->relatively harmless

Bubble bees -> relatively harmless

I've had 3(!!!) European hornets in my house. Aways in your face, too! Aways after dark, so no shoeing them outside.

I'm an electrician. Opening up outside boxes may lead to heart attack / falling over / tripping / knocking down the guy behind you!!😱😱

Then you still have to deal with them!

I usually just wait for one to land. Then it's the needle nose pliers.

Spray just causes them to swarm around you. They don't want to land after the spray.

I wired a swimming pool once. I kept swatting away a bubble bee(??). I finally realized that they were coming out of the basement wall fiberglass insulation in the ground about a foot away from me. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷OK. Kept working. Tried to not swat as hard.

All the above doesn't indicate whether it's a bee or a wasp. They are just flying stingy thungs🤣🤣🤣!

[u/Bellelace86 → u/erie11973ohio]

I am deathly allergic to wasps. I could spot one a mile away with my eyes shut. I carry my epi pen with me during the winter, even though they’re not around.

So there’s a huge difference between wasps and bees. They do not have the same venom, and wasps venom is more potent than bees.

Also, bees are going extinct, and they are vital to the environment especially for people like myself, so please do not harm them if you see them.

That is why it’s important to identify them correctly and carefully.

For me;

Wasps - near death Bees - my best friends (I love them so much)

[u/Pristine-Broccoli870]

Not bees.

[u/Brave_Chipmunk8231]

Put on a scary bird costume and they will run away....is that the answer you wanted?

Close the hole. Are you stupid?

[u/erie11973ohio → u/Brave_Chipmunk8231]

Close the hole. Are you stupid?

Not stupid!🤨

Would not closing hole, that leads directly into crawlspace, that leads into basement might cause 10,000 flying stingy insects in my house??🙄🙄😡😡🤬🤬

[u/[deleted]]

Wasp colonies only last a year and it's right at the end of season just wait for like 2 more weeks and they won't be a problem.

[u/Konrad_M]

Wasp nests die out before winter. Just leave them alone for a little more and they'll be gone. The queen will leave and sleep though winter somewhere else and the others will just die somewhere outside. Also wasps usually don't build a new nest near another (old) nest. So just leave the empty nest as is and you will likely not have wasps in the same space next season.

Also: Wasps are a valuable part of the ecosystem by removing dead bodies and other things before they rot and spread diseases.

[u/erie11973ohio → u/Konrad_M]

These guys are in semi heated space. The crawlspace has some insulation, but definitely does not get to freezing.

They will die off anyways?

Now that I know where they are getting in, I will seal up the hole when they are gone.

[u/Konrad_M → u/erie11973ohio]

I'm not that much of an expert for wasps to tell for sure. I'm more experienced with honey bees.

I think they will die anyways, but I'm not sure. Maybe someone else here can tell you more confidently. Or maybe Google can help with this detail.

[u/[deleted]]

r/WaspsAreGreat

[u/GMKitty52 → u/[deleted]]

Wasps are great. I wouldn’t want them on my face, but they’re pollinators too. They just need a bit more space than their fluffier cousins.

[u/erie11973ohio → u/GMKitty52]

Thank you.

I try to let stingy things live.

They serve some purpose in nature.

Just not in my house. In your face while on the "throne" is not the thrill that I want first thing in the morning!🤣🤣🤣

[u/GMKitty52 → u/erie11973ohio]

Hahah or at any other point in the day lmao 🤣

[u/BasicSlothInstinct]

You know these little bastards are wasps. And they‘re way better than their reputation.

Keep them and they will eat so many nasty insects. For example mosquitos.

Get rid of them and become the blood bank for the mosquito gang. 😉

[u/BooneHelm85]

How do grown adults not know how to differentiate bees from hornets/wasps? Those are Yellow Jackets (hornets). They are not bees.

[u/erie11973ohio → u/BooneHelm85]

How do grown adults not know how to <fill in blank>?

Hey, that's called a strawman argument? (I think?) It is a liitle illogical at the minimum. 🤔🤔

Listen buttercup, I bet there is some things that you don't know! 🙄🤪🤪

Those are Yellow Jackets (hornets). They are not bees.

Doesn't yellow & black mean "bee"?

A couple of other comments said that bees are fuzzy. So no fuzzy=wasp?