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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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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