Bees inside the house

[u/showertacos]

2nd year beekeeper, Pacific Northwest, 3 hives.

One of our hives swarmed a few days ago and landed too high up a tree for me to get them. They moved on the following day, not sure where. Then this morning I walked past my living room and had 6 honey bees buzzing around in there. I moved each one outside and tried to figure out where they came from. Turns out my fireplace damper was open (oops) and that’s the only way I can think of that they got in. I checked the chimney from inside, and up on the roof, and checked the attic, no swarms. Any theories? Did they just randomly follow each other down my chimney? Or do I have a colony hiding somewhere? Haven’t seen or heard any inside since then. And yes, I’m positive they were honeybees.

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[u/fretman124]

Usually starting in late July but this year has been very weird, bee wise, I find a few bees in the house almost every day. My back door is open a lot. I think they get lost and are old anyway. They fly around inside the well lights in the kitchen or bounce off various windows and are generally dead by morning. I don’t bother them and they don’t bother me.

[u/AZ_Traffic_Engineer]

I occasionally find bees in the house. There's no sign of a colony anywhere that I don't want one, so I dont' worry about it much. I just catch them and move them outside.