Bees coming down the chimney?

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I live in a lovely old house with an open fire place. Every spring/summer without fail, I get loads of bees coming down the chimney.

This year seems worse than ever and I seem to spend half my life finding them crawling around on the floor and having to scoop them up and put them outside.

The chimney is swept every winter and they’ve never found any trace of a nest. How can I stop this?! It’s driving me insane and if I don’t find the bees in time they die and it’s sad

Is there a nest on the roof maybe?

No advice, but we have the same problem. Very old house with multiple chimney openings and bees come out of all of them. We resort to taping black bags over them for the summer, but obviously less than ideal. We did get exterminators in the first year as we thought they were wasps

We have this - get a wodge of chicken wire in a ball and stuff it up the chimney. Smoke can get out but bees can't get in

If they are coming in the top from outside, you need to put the chicken wire over the top of the chimney under the cowl. This should stop them coming in. You need the small gauge chicken wire.