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 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.
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