However, the damage they can cause to your home's wood structures is no laughing matter. "It's very trendy right now to 'save the bees,'" says Emma Grace Crumbley, an entomologist at Mosquito Squad.

It should have two rooms: one filled with wood shavings for the queen to breed in, the other an empty compartment where the rest of the bees live. Bumblebees may also nest in tussocks of grass or ...