Are they honey bees?
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1. Are they coming from a hole in the ground?If so, you don’t have honeybees.
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2. Are they Yellow and black?Honeybees aren’t yellow, they’re brown.
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3. The nest is grey and made of paper, I can’t see the combs.Yellow Jackets.
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4. The comb is hanging horizontally; I can see the “bees” crawling on the bottom.These
are paper wasps.
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5. They are coming out from under the leaves at the base of my bushes.Ground Hornets.
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6. There are hundreds coming and going from a hole in my siding.Good chance.
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7. It’s August and now when I walk past my bush (fence, wall, and deck) I get stung. I didn't do anything.Honeybees aren’t that aggressive. It’s probably wasps.
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8. I can see the combs and they are hanging vertically from the tree limb, or I look in the hole in the tree or siding and see yellow combs with thousands of brown bees. The combs are hanging vertically.Bingo, you’ve got honeybees.
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9. There is a huge mass if bees building a nest in my tree. It’s the size of a football, and all I see is bees. Bingo you've got a swarm of bees.Relax, they’ll move on and move into a
tree or wall nearby in a few hours or days.
