I always find flies flying around the house. Occasionally wasps. But I have never had a Honey bee or bumble bee enter the house.
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Bees collect honey to produce food , wasps eat insects , flies eat a variety of things. Try filling your house with flowers and leaving the windows open
Because they have diffrent diets. Bees collect the nectar from flowers to eat and you usually dont have live flowering plants in your house. But flies and wasps eat a lot of things which include things that you your self eat thats also why you see them a lot when eating.
It depends on the bee. As others have said, most bees aren’t interested in anything in your house. But I have a couple of carpenter bees in my back yard who bang on my windows trying to get in the house.
Honeybees and bumblebees are exclusively nectar eaters so they’re only interested in flowers, not the rotting garbage in your kitchen.
Flies and yellowjackets are very interested in your garbage, they’ll eat anything.
Wasps and Flies are more scavengers, so they will go into dark/enclosed spaces seeking out a source for their food or to lay their eggs.
Bees on the other hand have a specific diet of sugars which comes from Flowers.
Flowers don’t grow in dark places in nature, so they have most likely evolved to not enter houses/doorways/windows to get into people houses.
I believe bees find food via ultraviolet light, flies search out purifying stuff by smell and wasps search for sweet things by smell. Your house just doesn’t display the interesting ultraviolet patterns that attract bees. Could be wrong on this though.
Bees can and will fly into houses especially in the spring when they could be looking for a new home. But mostly they won’t come in because they fly looking for food and you probably don’t have what they want in your house. Unless you are a forgetful beekeeper and happen to leave the basement door open where all the bee stuff is stored. That was a bad afternoon. But just this week I had two bees buzzing in my kitchen looking for a way out. It wasn’t until I went upstairs to my bedroom that I saw my husband had left the balcony door open. These bees most likely came in looking for a new place to relocate. Did you know bees were democratic? When they swarm they will leave approximately half the bees in the old hive with a baby queen. These bees will land somewhere nearby and start sending out scouts looking for new digs. When a bee finds a place they like they go back to the swarm and tell the other bees about it. Some will go check it out and if they like it too they will tell more bees if they didn’t like it they will fly back and not say anything. Eventually when most of the bees are talking about the same place they will decide that’s where they are moving in to. By talking I mean dancing like they do when they find some nice flowers they think the other bees should check out.
TLDR: they do sometimes if they are looking for a new home.
Source: I’ve been a beekeeper for 5 years and have 14 hives. Also Honeybee Democracy Thomas Seeley
Be very careful asking a beekeeper a question about bees. You will always get more information from an answer than you bargained for.
I have 2 kinds of wasps around my place.
1st kind flies into the house (regular wasps)
The other kind (long legs) sees an imaginary wall put into the open window, wants to fly inside but quickly turns back as soon as it is inside, so funny.
I live between farms, and they use bees to pollinate the plants. During the growing season, I have multiple bees in my house every week.
I think the biggest reason we don’t see so many bees as flies, is simply there are a lot less in the world.
According to this article (2017) for each person on Earth, there are 17 million flies.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/trillions-of-flies-can-t-be-all-that-bad-science-health-a8064881.html
8 billion people * 17 million = 136,000,000,000,000,000 flies.
According to this article (2019) https://www.quora.com/How-many-bees-are-left-in-the-world-since-they-are-in-danger-of-extinction there are only 6,000,000,000,000 bees in the world.
Assuming those numbers are anywhere near correct, there are 22666 flies for every bee. And flies seem to thrive everywhere, bees are more delicate, so in a metropolitan area, the difference will be even bigger!
DISCLAIMER: Those numbers are quite old, between 2017 and 2019. But I couldn’t find anything newer. Plus, that’s just my personal opinion, hopefully someone that actually understands these things can confirm or deny my idea…
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