<div dir="ltr"><div>I hesitate to use chemicals on bees. Bees are essential to the environment, whereas wasps are just arseholes. My house gets wasps, of course.</div><div><br></div><div>Chemicals on wasps, sure, no problem. I'll dump the whole inventory of Dow Chemicals in between the bricks if I find wasps going in and out of there (there is some sort of wasp killer available at Home Hardware). When I find a wasp nest, I unload a half a can of the foam stuff on it.</div><div><br></div><div>Wifeski did buy me some expanding foam to seal up the cracks between the bricks. Maybe this is the year when I'll get around to using it...</div><div><br></div><div>Back to the bees. If they've started building their home in the walls then they're in for the long haul. You need to find some sort of incentive for them to move elsewhere. Maybe even buy those little bee hotels that they can sleep in (basically a birdhouse with a bunch of tubes that the bees crawl into), and install it away from the house. You can get nice ones at farm feed stores like the one in Heidelberg, if you go that way.</div><div><br></div><div>Not sure how well this will work if the bees are well established in your house, but you could put a fake wasp nest nearby. Wasps vs. Bees is the fight of the century. They won't go into each others' territory without a good reason. If you could convince the bees that your house is a wasp house then they might move out. That sometimes works, but not always. You can buy the fake nests at any dollar store, or CTC at least.</div><div><br></div><div>If you're serious about saving the bees, maybe contact a beekeeper in your area? I don't know but maybe they might come and do some sort of Pied Piper thing to entice the bees away? dunno..</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 4 Sept 2026 at 13:35, William Park via kwlug-disc <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">(off-topic)<br>
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I have bees inside of exterior brick wall. They are coming/going from <br>
the spaces between bricks. Anyone had this? And, how did you get rid <br>
of them?<br>
<br>
- University of YouTube and Google AI say to use "insecticide dust". I <br>
couldn't find anything for bees locally, so I bought "ant killing <br>
powder" from Canadian Tire. It's been 3 days. Bees are still actively <br>
flying about.<br>
<br>
- I may have to resort to chemical spray. There are 2 types of spray: <br>
liquid and foam. Is "foam" better for bees inside brick wall?<br>
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