Need an expert! Wasps or bees?

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Randomly woke up to this this morning outside my home.

I have an allergy to stings so I need it gone asap and don’t want to get to close to it.
am I right in assuming it’s wasps? Thank you!

Bees. They’ve swarmed and landed on your property; call your local beekeepers and they’ll come and take them away.

That’s a swarm of bees.

Looks like a bee swarm to me.

Google your area / check Facebook for a local bee keeper, someone will usual come pick them up!

Bees … contact a local beekeeper, they will probably come and collect them. Round here most people post on the local FB group, then someone goes and gets them.

I think that's a swarm of bees. See if you can find a local beekeeper who might be able to come and collect them. I often see people asking on local Facebook groups for beekeepers.

Sorry for repeating what everyone else said. All those comments were posted as I was typing mine! 😂

I'd say bees , my neice had similar a week or so ago, she put a shoutout on Facebook for a beekeeper and found out one lived a couple of doors down. He said the queen had possibly been kicked out and some of the hive had followed her .

I'm a beekeeper. They are honey bees. Google Beekerping in your local area and there will be a beekeeping association nearby and they will have details of who to call if you get a swarm . Ring and the beekeeper will come and collect them and shouldn't charge you as they are getting a free colony of bees

Thank you!
I’ll have to have a browse. Will they go on their own?

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I won't repeat what others have already said. Swarm is a scary word, but bees are at their most placid when they aren't defending a hive, so call a beekeeper and try not to worry in the meantime. If you left them where they are, they probably would move off eventually, but it would take a while. A few scout bees peel off from the swarm, go off, find a desirable location and return to the swarm to do the waggle dance - the bees' way of communicating new hive sites, food sources, anything else you need to know about when you're a bee. It could take longer than it would for a local beekeeper to turn up to take the bees off your hands.

I love bees (just not their stings!)
I did doubt they were wasps that’s why I came on here tbh, they’re very chilled, just sat in their pile minding their own business. I’ve spoken to a beekeeper who can’t come until Saturday but she said they may have moved on by then

Bees are fascinating aren't they? the chap that came to collect my nieces ones was sooo excited!

Beekeepers wife; common time of year. They are looking for a new home scouts are out searching as you type. Rather valuable to a professional.
@yellowspanner how much for a nuc in the uk? How much is 1kg of honey? We’re in canada

I’ve been watching them all afternoon they really do fascinate me. The way they all swarm together, what is the reason for that?

A beekeeper is coming on Saturday to take them, he did say however they could’ve moved by then.

they have they have a fairly strict functioning "ordered" life cycle and go together as a group to find a new home.
once a hive reaches a certain size or the queen begins to fail the original hive splits in two. a small working group with one queen and another small (although small is 50,000 strong) group will leave to find a new home. once at their new home they have members from each of their working groups (water haulers, pollen getters, nurse bees, male bees, wax makers etc and of course the queen)
they leave the original hive ready to start a new life somewhere else. generally somewhere else is within 5 miles facing south and about 10 ft in the air. they are not active at night. a swarm generally doesn't go that far from it's original hive.
were you able to reach a local bee keeper to arrange collection?

Yep! He’s coming Saturday morning but he said he’ll ring me beforehand incase they’ve moved on.

I think I’ll miss them I’ve been watching them from a distance!

Just a 🐝 update! They’ve been collected by a beekeeper and he’ll send me a photo of their new home once they’re settled in