Wasp or Bee?

[Gamergirl86]

Sorry about picture quality. The little beasts are fast.

They are making something in my walls. I hear them at night eating my structural integrity.

It’s very blurry so hard to be sure, but wasps are more likely to chew materials to make their nests. Honey bees use existing cavities and build comb from their wax glands. The volume of insects coming in and out would give a clue.

@Gamergirl86 " I hear them at night eating my structural integrity" sounds painful!

Looks like a wasp to me?

There s a lot of them. They're not bumbly like bee? I'm more and more convinced they're wasps.

Fucking he’ll OP, you’ll have to make it clearer than that. It’s anyone guess, it’s grainy black blurred with yellow 😂

What are they flying into? Doesn’t look like a brick wall - some sort of cladding? Roof tile? Could be wasps, could be carpenter or masonry bees.

Not all bees are bumbly - only bumbles!

😄 I tried!

You will see the wasps returning to the nest in the evening, hundreds of them all going the same way into the nest. Then you'll know! If getting rid of the wasps nest then evening/night time is best as they are all inside!

I don't know what it is you have though. A better pic if you can might help.

If it has a waist, it's a wasp.

They look very like wasps. In fact now that I look again I'm sure they are!

A clearer picture?

They definitely look like wasps - so possibly you have a nest somewhere in there?

Thanks, yep they keep.me.up night building the damn thing 😬

Wasps . Definitely wasps.

Wasp, I'm afraid.

Call pest control services. They will deal with it.

It's a g2 timber framed cottage. C.17th century. The part you see is a beam just under the first storey window.

They're getting in through a couple of cracks.

Looks like wasps to me too.

Wasps.

I think honeybees are slightly darker yellow and have more of a rounded bum, not as pointy as a wasp (probably because they don't want to stab everyone with their stinger). Honeybees are a bit furry too, and they're quite chill. Wasps are angry for no reason.

Definitely a wasp. They make their nests from paper; wood pulp they mix with their saliva. They might be chewing exposed wood somewhere in the house but any damage they cause will be superficial. The nest will only be used once. They die off at the end of summer just after they become annoying sugar junkies.

If the cracks they're getting into through can be easily and safely accessed they can be killed with ant powder. Just squirt it into the cracks, the wasps will get contaminated as they come and go and they'll take a lethal dose into the nest.

The good news is, they won't come back to the same nest. They will build a new one in Spring next year. They die off in the Autumn if you're prepared to wait around!

Definitely wasps, I had some in my walls and they chewed up a load of insulation. I generally think live and let live but if they are actively damaging the house you will need to get pest control in.

Bees are round (often darker) and wasps are long (often lighter), that is usually how I can tell.

@rosie1873 honey bees are a similar size and shape to wasps but agree wasps are usually more yellow and bumble bees more round and furry :)

Wasps, you don’t really want them to make a home under your tiles, they’re not bad insects and do a lot of good pollinating too. They just get pissed when they’re about to die so will sting you.

Good news is that is definitely a wasp - as such you can kill the b’stards off! If you’re feeling brave and you can access where they are getting in you can put something over it, like a plastic bag and tape it up bar a small hole and spray loads of wasp killer in… but do it wrong and you willl get stung, probably lots! I’d just call pest control and have them sort it out.