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Forget the barn swallows -- it's the carpenter bees that are giving me trouble this year. There seem to be dozens of them around all the outbuildings.

Is there anything that can be used to trap them? I can't see any economical way to spray them all.

They love the new (cheap) pine from Lowe's that I used on the lean-to.
 
Spray the pine good with a good general purpose insecticide. They eat the poisoned wood and die. Works for about 6 months.

They also do not like painted wood.
 
look for a product called "Demon" it comes in prepakaged pouches for 1 gallon dilution. Spray the nests and or entrances. I have been told that the bees do not injest the wood. That would explain why I have seen them living in Pressure Treated Posts.
 
Even WD-40 will kil them--almost anything. Then the problem is that other insects will take up residence in the holes.
Yeah spraying the wood works too.
 
i use them for sport take a 1x3 3ft long and batters up its more fun than you think one time me and a freind of mine killed 60 or so in about a hour just hanging out in the barn
 
Had some carpenter bees try to take over some sawhorse 2X4's...being an automotive kinda guy, I discovered that filling their hole with Bondo solved the problem, at least for the time I needed to use the sawhorse.
 
Well if your a good shot they make great sport . years back while working on trailer brakes one day there were a bunch of them dive bombing me and buddy while we were cleaning up parts . Well after getting beaned in the head about fifty times one more bounced off the top of my hat and looked up and said out loud do that again and i will shot you , My buddy Sid yea i would like to see that. Not thirty seconds later wham got nailed again threw the parts cleaning brush down wiped my hands off walked to the pick up and got my Rugar (SP)super signal six out and all Sid heard was bam and he saw what was left of the bee coming to the ground . I never thought that he would stop laughen . when he could get his breath and get the tears out of his eye's said bet ya can't do that again Bam down came another one Now i am not tryen to pull your chain here this did happen . Well work stopped and Sid went and got his Colt and we spent the afternoon shooten the bee's not the bull . Sorta solved the bee problem while sharping the eye and steading the hand .
 
My son came by and wanted to talk about new cell phone plans. I said alright but well have to bat bees with tennis rackets while we talk. About twenty bees later I think we have it figured out.
 
Goto an auto parts store and get Brakeclean. It works great and they are darn near dead before they hit the ground.
 
Is there any way to get rid of these pests too? Seems like I move something in the shed and everything's been cemented together with their mud nests.
 
I just grabbed up their little tool bags and locked them up, so the must of gone to Lowe's to get more tools, and ain't come back yet!
And, it an't them thats muddin up yer machinery holes--its mud dauber wasps, who get sort of riled up if ya mess with them. They like to plug up the gas tank caps with mud, and the owner of the machinery tears his hair out, until he finds the problem!
 
over a period of 3 years,I exterminated most the mud daubers around my place.One day I heard a local organic gardening guru say that mud daubers preferr black widows to feed their larva.I had indeed noticed an increase in black widow population.I started busting open and examining the contents of the dauber nests each time I removed them.When I found the second widow inside,I chose the lesser evil and let up on the daubers.I am convinced that's why I now seldom see a black widow."results may vary"
 
Mix up a gallon or so of SEVIN insecticide and spray the areas where they seem to want to bore. You won't get all their spots, but you'll get enough on the wood that they will pick it up. They like the wood above where I park my pickup truck in the barn. I last sprayed it late in the summer of '08, and there were dead ones on the hood of the truck as soon as the weather warmed up this spring.
 
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