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I can't post links as I'm a new member but I get this stuff off Amazon. My house used to be full of False Widows so once I'd been round and manually collected them all up (took weeks as they only come out at night and they are very clever, they run and hide as soon as they see you) I then opened...

Perfect, I can live with that. I just went out my front door and heard a Bee making a hell of a noise as it was caught in a web being attacked by a False Widow spider (loads around the outside of my house), so I got the Bee out of the web and spent a bit of time gently getting all the spider...

Yeah thanks but I wouldn't block it completely anyway, I'd definitely get a proper vent cap/insert 👍🏻

Oh of course, I wouldn't ever do anything while they are doing their thing. I'd either just leave everything alone and let them use the wall every year or if they became a problem I'd wait until they've left one year and then block the hole.

Thank you, now I've got the species I'll go read up :-)

I do actually like them here, I actually bought some Beebombs recently for the back garden to attract more Bees, I may well actually just leave them be then and let them come and go each year, maybe a small sign by the front door explaining they are harmless will do the trick.

Perfect, thanks guys :-) That's great that they are harmless but they do freak some visitors out when they are all buzzing around the front door. There are actually other vent holes in my house so maybe they'll find another one next Spring if I block this current one up later in the year, that...

As much as I don't want to block them out, they do sometimes all swarm around the front door which isn't ideal.

Thank you, I will try and get a picture of one to confirm. Just to confirm there are plenty of Bees entering the wall as well as leaving it. So if they are in fact not hibernating over the Winter, I should be able to block the hole up with a mesh vent of some sort after they have left in a month...

Background: I moved in to my current house around 4 years ago and every Spring since I've noticed big fat Bees coming and going from a vent hole in the brickwork of my house, being quite laid back and lover of all animals I just kind of left them to it because they seemed to disappear at some...