YOUR BEE ISN'T VERY FURRY IT MAY HAVE BANDING ON THE ABDOMEN

A Wild Bee Colony

UK Bee Removers are an organisation that specialise in the removal of Honeybee colonies from buildings

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Your bee may be a Honey Bee. Honey bees build large colonies inside buildings and so they need a void about eighteen inches (half a metre) cubed; chimneys are a favourite spot, in the ceilings above bay windows another. Bee colonies in buildings are notoriously difficult to remove, and Beekeepers are loathed to try removal, it's a very difficult, messy, sticky job! If your bees have arrived within the past four hours it may be possible to evict them with smoke. After this time it becomes increasingly more difficult.

Your bees are not the problem but their stores of honey are a massive problem! It's not unusual for a colony of bees to have 90lb of honey in store.

If you have your bees fumigated the Pest Control Operative is duty bound by law to block the entrance to stop other bee colonies robbing the honey from the comb inside the colony. Honey is hydroscopic and will expand as it absorbs water, dripping out of the comb into your building. You cannot remove honey from the fabric of a building, you can't paint or paper over the large black stains that will spread across ceilings and down walls, your property will be seriously damaged!

Many people live for years with bees in their property, with honey bees no action is the best action, remember, the bees aren't the problem, it's the honey that's the problem.

VERY BEST ADVICE: DO NOTHING