Eradicating carpenter bees....HELPPPPP!!!!
 

Just discovered carpenter bees boring through fascia boards and apparently eating studs. House is sided with rough cut, unpainted cypress that they won't touch. Any suggestions?.

Napalm?

I use wasp spray. Look to see when they go in the hole and fire a shot up after them.

Oh the beemanity
 

Great information on dealing with bees on this web site.

Oh the beemanity

Go cut a small pine tree. Cut a piece about 2 feet long. Strip off the bark. Hang it from the eves. The bees will go for the fresh soft pine before they go for the harder stuff. Might also be the smell of the fresh pine that draws them. Might want to hang a couple. It works here in Georgia.

I found 5 the other day at my house. Used wasp spray on each hole, whacked 'em with a broom when they came out of their holes and collected what was left in a jar which now resides at the local landfill.

They say it's better to spray the holes with a dust that they can take to their eggs, thus helping to kill the next batch, but I couldn't help myself.

JR

Had some on my patio recently…those buggers are big!
I silicone’d the holes shut where I found them burrowing.

The others, I shot them with Berryman’s! works great on ant’s also!

My mother has some sort of rough cut wood for her house. They were eating the hell out of her house, and then the woodpeckers were tearing up the wood to get at them. She called a exterminator and told him the problem. He came out, looked around, said he'd see what he could do. He cooked up some sort of insecticide cocktail and sprayed the house. That did the trick. When she sees a bee she calls him, he comes and sprays and then they are gone again. I think the application lasts about/at least a year.

Before that my dad used to spray WD-40 up the holes (which made them really mad and really dead), but that was a losing battle.

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Sick your menopausal wife on them?

I have relatives that love to shoot guns. Whenever I get carpenter bee's, they come out and sit by the house and when one comes in for a landing, BLAM.

My strategy which has work permanently on every hole I have had them in goes as follows. First use wasp/hornet spray to kill the ones on the outside and spray into the hole. Once you can get to the hole in the wall they have been coming out of without fear of getting attacked spray expanding foam into the hole until it expands out. This will kill all the bees inside and seal up the cavity. They don't seem to like to burrow through that stuff so I have never seen them come back. Just cut off the excess foam once it has hardened.

It is entertaining to see a bee try to come out covered with expanding foam. They just stick to whatever they are touching and get stuck somewhere. Enjoy!!!!

i use a bb rifle..... they have a tendency to hover at times and are not all that hard to shoot even at a distance. i am an ole retired dude and find this quite "entertaining" on a 90 degree plus day sitting in the shade!!! takes several to make a wall mounting....though!

I dramatically thinnned the population at my rental property with a Pro Kennex tennis racket. They don't sting do they? My dog has 3 confirmed kills as well and none seemed to sting her.

We use an over sized head Wilson tennis raquet! Current score is 4 sets to 0. God help us if the hairy b-tards ever score!

They do NOT sting--I use a tennis racket--my father uses a .22 loaded w/ birdshot at his house--not recomended in the city.

Some sting. I forget if it's the males or females, but one or the other can sting you if they want.

JR

Was this guy from Alabama????