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Most Common
Spots Honey Bees Build their Nests
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Eaves/ Soffits
 The eaves or soffits of a house are a favorite spot for the honey bee. They tend to choose East or Southeast facing locations
and prefer the protection provided by the eave since they are usually isolated from the house and the attic. Bees only need
an 1/8 of an inch to get into a cavity. Once they start building their hive, they will continue to fill the cavity until it
is full and then move over to the  next accessible cavity or worse, the roof line which then requires a roofer to do the repairs after the bee hive
is removed.
Trees
 The hollow of trees is another of the Honey Bee's preferred locations. We often get call from customers saying "I
just walked by the tree in my front yard and it sound like there's an engine running in my tree", or "my tree
is humming." Usually if you see a clump of honey bees hanging from a branch, this is a swarm trying to find a new home
and is merely resting for up to 72 hours while the scouts identify suitable locations- though they will sometimes build right
there! On the other hand, bees that live in the hollow of a tree can be a difficult to eliminate because it is impossible
to see which way the cavity goes and whether or not the pesticide being applied is reaching the majority of the hive. Additionally,
the same tree may have other entrances to that hollow, ones that might be further up the tree out of sight. How to kill bees
inside a tree? Their resources must be cut off!!! If they can't gather pollen, nectar and water they cannot survive!!!
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Cinder Blocks and Concrete Blocks 
Another location in which
we often find Bee Hives is inside the 4" x 4" spaces of these building materials. Bee Hive Removal can be
difficult in these spots because often the blocks are overlapping, resulting in the bee hive zig-zagging through the caverns
of the cinder block. To ensure complete bee hive removal requires a four-point inspection of each block in which bee
activity is discovered. Behind
Siding  Between the aluminum or wooden siding and the drywall is another location from which we often have to remove bees. We have
seen honey bees fill the cavity from ceiling to ground, from stud to stub. As with the eaves, honey bees prefer east and southeast
facing walls and also enjoy the isolation being in between the exterior and interior walls. Customers often call us saying
that their walls have started to buzzzz! Usually by the time bees can be heard from the inside, there is a substantial and
well developed hive already established inside the wall. 
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Behind Bricks Most brick structures have spaces in between the bricks,
usually at the base, where no grout was applied to allow ventilation. The honey bee will enter through the slit and begin building their honeycomb in the hollow behind the
brick. If there are vertical studs along the cavity, the bee will fill a cavity and then move over the stud to the next hollow.
Once they start building, removing the brick to expose the honeycomb is necessary so it can be properly removed. To avoid
destroying any of the bricks during the bee removal process, experience and precision are required to cut out the grout without
compromising the bricks since they can be re-used to close the cavity after all the honey comb has been extracted. Click here for more pics Under Sheds Another favorite home for the honey
bee is under the floor of sheds. This usually provides a cool dark space for them to build  their home. Since the shed is visited occasionally to grab some tools or pull out the lawnmower, it's not uncommon for
hives to be there for many months before identified.
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