[Closed] Bees? In the lawn?

If they are indeed honey bees, contact your local beekeeper or the society, someone will come get them.

I don't think honey bees live in the ground do they?

If they’re honey bees then a local bee keeper can prob take them away.

I’d be surprised at honey bees living in the lawn though. A colony would only want to settle if a space about the size and shape of a beehive (funnily enough)  they so unless you’ve got a surprisingly big burrow under your lawn I’d expect they’re another kind of bee

I can do to encourage them to move on

look up ‘bait hive’ - a more attractive place for then to settle basically- you’ve the got the colony in a box ready for a keeper to take away

Probably mining bees and they're not known for stinging.

Should be harmless. 4 years old is probably a good age to get the little 'un interested in wildlife and nature if they aren't already. Bees are great. Wasps are *****

Solitary bees probably. Got them in our lawn. Harmless. Kids a bit wary but they don’t sting. Live in little burrows in the lawn. Live and let live.

Probably mining bees

send in Ian MacGregor

I've got some in my lawn. They are harmless and I like them

From experience, wear shoes. Our chickens decimated our miner bees, if you get chickens, wear shoes.

Not all bees are Honey Bees...shocker.

https://www.bumblebeeconservation.org/tawnyminingbee/

https://www.lawnsmith.co.uk/topic/pests-diseases/ants-bees

They're miner bees. We have them. I like them, they aerate the lawn, pollinate flowers and are no trouble. They have a sting, but very passive and would struggle to penetrate your skin AFAIK.

They're probably after the sausages

Honey-glazed sausages, I bet they're forming a bee-bee queue.

Honey-glazed sausages, I bet they’re forming a bee-bee queue.

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We've a colony of carder bees which return every year. They live in burrows.

There's also miner bees of various forms as well, as they too live in holes.

Bees don't sting unless really p*ss*d off, they really don't. Teach the kids about them.

Definitely bees? Could also be ground nesting wasps - which can be a bit c*nty around people, I’ve found. Especially people mowing the lawn...

Mining bees looks like it might be the right call with these as there aren’t loads of them about and the burrows look similar to some examples on google image search and I can believe the ones I’ve seen could pass as the males.

I guess we’ll just leave them bee for now.

(Sorry)

Definitely bees? Could also be ground nesting wasps – which can be a bit c*nty around people, I’ve found. Especially people mowing the lawn…

Try stuffing a surveying staff in the entrance...

I think my parents have these and the local rooks are after the larvae. Every day there's neat little piles of moss left by digging rooks on the lawn. It's the only thing that makes sense (at the moment)

We had some bumble bees living in the lawn at our old house. All was fine until a badger took an interest and excavated the nest.

Bumble Bees everywhere!

Try stuffing a surveying staff in the entrance…

Not all the staff. Just an apprentice should do it.