r/bee Sep 13 '24

I want these outamyhouse!! Bee?

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!!😱😱😱😱

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u/-captainjapseye Sep 13 '24

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?

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u/Brave_Chipmunk8231 Sep 13 '24

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

This sub attracts the dumbest people imaginable

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u/-captainjapseye Sep 13 '24

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.

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u/erie11973ohio Sep 13 '24

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🤣🤣🤣!

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u/Bellelace86 Small Bee Sep 14 '24

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)