Recurring bee problems can be very frustrating and expensive. You can avoid recurring bee problems. Keeping bees away typically requires a small amount of knowledge.
Honeybees may also build exposed hives under the eave. Sometimes the hive is also inside the structure. Honeybees do not build satellite sub nests, like termites and some ants do.
Consider removing previously exhausted hives based on your financial budget and defiantly consider bee proofing areas of the structure that face or partially face the direction of the sunrise. Bees prefer to build hives were the sun can warm the hive in the morning.
Honeybee hives live year round. Critters that are not active year round include wasps, hornets, yellow jackets or meat bees, bumblebees & carpenter bees. Those critters start in spring time as single individual queens. They commonly return to same places as the previous year.
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Still removing the nest can help with ongoing problems. During winter or early spring, painting the area were they nest (if that is an option) is very helpful to discourage the wasp, or hornets from rebuilding the coming season.