“Bumble bees have a fuzzy rear and nest in the ground. They’re not drilling into your house.” Signs of a carpenter bee infestation include small circular openings in wood, piles of ...

Most of the time, bees do their own thing, foraging for food and raising a colony. But if a nest is too close to your house—or even be in the walls of your house—you must take action.

Mirroring the mechanisms that make human faces and bodies—and those of many multicellular organisms—symmetrical, bee colonies build symmetrical nests when they are placed on either side of a ...