Help With Bees:
Help with bee nests - How to relocate or revive bees without harming them - plus other queries
During spring through to autumn, I receive many queries about how to help bees, relocate them or revive them, and many questions about bee nests.
Some of the queries I receive are raising concerns about:
- the risk of stings
- risk of property damage
- how to keep the bees safe
- how to relocate bees
- how to revive them
- reasons for finding dead bees.
Below are links to some of my advice pages. Hope this helps!
Help pages
(Please note, the bees in the images below may look different from the ones you have a query about, but the advice may still be relevant. The images on this page are simply from a stock of my own photographs).
If you are seeing many, many bees, perhaps a swarm please see these pages:
Advice on the removal of honey bee swarms.
General queries
Queries regarding bumble bees
Very
comprehensive, general information on bumble bee nests and moving them - (but see below for responses to real queries)
Do you have a bumble bee nest in the roof or fascia boards? Real advice given to a visitor.
How can I help a bumble bee with mites?
I'm worried because I keep finding dead bumble bees.
I keep finding bumble bees with their heads missing.
How can I help a bee trapped in a spider web?
Queries regarding ground nesting bees
US Visitors - Queries regarding carpenter bees
US visitors
only, with large carpenter bees.
Carpenter bee image by Daniel Schwen courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Creative Commons License
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