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Dan from PA

05-28-2000 20:26:25




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Anyone have any success getting rid of carpenter bees? They're tunneling through the beams, trusses and purlins in my shop. I don't relish the thought of having to paint all of the interior structure with several coats of paint. If I don't do something, the building will fall down on my tools and then I won't have anything to talk about!




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KC

05-08-2002 23:03:48




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 Re: Carpenter Bees in reply to Dan from PA, 05-28-2000 20:26:25  
Just finding out tonight what we have. While I initially feared them (there are so many running my yard ) now I just charge through face down and jump when I hear one close to my head. Rather annoying !
Am relieved to find out the males are the ones with their butt in my face since they are the harmless (good to know , tomorrow should be fun LOL) any~hew some of these follow ups gave great laughs so ..... . I thought I would join in . Last week as my husband was confronted by one of the males AGAIN he began cussing it as if they were going to throw down for garage rights and as the bee got closer I got to watch him dance around with the broom and make sounds roight out of a karate flick for entertainment hee hee. 2 days later, during backyard casting practice, one actually landed on him and I watched from the kitchen window as he knocked it off and proceeded with a tribal dance ~what a laugh that was~ Perhaps my new knowledge of the male being stingerless should not be shared right away... I kinda enjoy watching him fight for our yard.
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Good luck to all and thanks for the input.
KC

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Frank Caltury

04-22-2002 07:35:06




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 Re: Carpenter Bees in reply to Dan from PA, 05-28-2000 20:26:25  
These bees come back year after year. Is painting the wood the only way to stop them?



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Ken

04-20-2002 06:41:23




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 Re: Carpenter Bees in reply to Dan from PA, 05-28-2000 20:26:25  
I've been told that if you fill their hole with silicon, when they eat their way back out the silicon kills them. Killing the male (yellow spot on head) is a waste of time. The female inside is doing the damage. She's laying eggs and when they hatch you are re enfested. Powdered insecticide blown into the hole will get on them when they hatch and kill them.



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Dan from PA

06-02-2000 22:49:21




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 Re: Carpenter Bees in reply to Dan from PA, 05-28-2000 20:26:25  
Thanks for all the suggestions. I've been doing some research. Most commercial systems want you to puff some insecticide dust in each hole and then plug it with a cork. I'm going to try filling each hole with the cheapest caulking I can find.
They say they only can tunnel about an inch a day, so maybe they'll die of starvation before they can tunnel past the caulk. That is, if they don't get gummed up in it when it's wet, which should kill them. I heard somewhere that some steel wool makes the caulk chew-proof, so I might try a few that way, too.
I also found out that the ones you see flying around the viscinity of the nest 'protecting' it are the males, and they cannot sting. The females are the ones that do the tunnelling, and they can sting, but are not agressive. They're mostly concerned with eating and tunneling. I've wondered about this for a long time, because I've never been stung by one, despite years of working right underneath the nests, with bees dive-bombing all around me.
Yeah, my dad did the BB-gun thing for a while. He's a better shot than me, though. I've found that the sand blaster can take out whole clouds of them in one swell foop.

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catch the yellow face ones

06-02-2000 10:08:05




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 Re: Carpenter Bees in reply to Dan from PA, 05-28-2000 20:26:25  
we used to catch the yellow face or bald face ones and tie some sewing string on then and play with them.....the black faced will sting you...but not the ones with yellow on their face...try it i'm not kidding



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Corey

06-01-2000 08:40:49




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 Re: Carpenter Bees in reply to Dan from PA, 05-28-2000 20:26:25  
I was cleaning up some old wood in the barn once and ran into quite a few of them. I grabbed the closest thing I could find, which I later found out was spray adhesive. It stopped them right in their tracks! I filled the holes with silicon and they haven't come back....



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Sam from Jawja

05-31-2000 16:01:14




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 Re: Carpenter Bees in reply to Dan from PA, 05-28-2000 20:26:25  
I know where you are coming from....they are eating my shop up too. On a lighter note....if you have a bb gun its a lot like shooting dove. Theres no way you can hit 'em when they are dartin' around but they like to hesitate outside the hole and you can nail their butts if you have a steady aim! No...I'm not kiddin'. I wasted a couple of hours one day shootin' carpenter bees and its the only positive thing I've seen from having them eat my shop up.

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Warren

05-31-2000 07:19:55




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 Re: Carpenter Bees in reply to Dan from PA, 05-28-2000 20:26:25  
Dan,

Contact Nisus Corporation - www.nisuscorp.com/bora.htm
They make a variety of products for pest control and I'm sure that one of them would work well for your situation. At some point in the insect's life cycle, I think it has to leave the wood. I believe that if you spray this on the wood, it will prevent new insects form boring into the wood.
Good luck.



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Nathan

05-29-2000 12:21:48




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 Re: Carpenter Bees in reply to Dan from PA, 05-28-2000 20:26:25  
Dan, The only info I've seen concerns killing the bees after the holes are found. Too late, damage done. I did find an interesting situation here with one. I saw the bee entering the hole and sliced it in half with my daughters plastic shovel. A couple of days later I noticed in my daughters wagon below the hole, a dead bee and several larvae, all dead. Don't know what did it, maybe an insect of some sort?

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martin

05-30-2000 09:23:22




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 Re: Re: Carpenter Bees in reply to Nathan, 05-29-2000 12:21:48  
Carb cleaner...spray with that and then fill the holes with epoxy...

The carb cleaner actually freezes them to death and it is instant...the epoxy prevents new bees from entering...

Actually I guess anything that will freeze them instantly would work...

Martin



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TerryM

06-01-2000 06:32:11




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 Re: Re: Re: Carpenter Bees in reply to martin, 05-30-2000 09:23:22  
WD-40, spray it in the hole and they leave and (in my experience) don't come back. Then fill the hole with something. Use the little plastic nozzel so the WD-40 gets all the way back in the hole.



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CHRIS-MF35

06-01-2000 20:19:15




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Carpenter Bees in reply to TerryM, 06-01-2000 06:32:11  
try PB BLASTER. you won't have to leave, just watch them drop right to the floor and die. no worrys about being stung! is also the best penatrating oil i've ever seen.



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nwhite

06-15-2000 12:51:40




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Carpenter Bees in reply to CHRIS-MF35, 06-01-2000 20:19:15  
In the spring when I first notice their activity, I hang a 'BUG BOPPER' with guard removed on the rafters. Within a couple of days, all have been zapped in a pile under the 'bopper'. Works for me.



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L.K.B.

04-05-2001 16:58:40




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Carpenter Bees in reply to nwhite, 06-15-2000 12:51:40  
My husband and I just sit out on the porch and wait with the B.B.gun(or BEE-BEE Gun)when we see a bee we just shoot it. It takes some pratice but after a while it gets easier to hit them.
TIP: Don't pump it up to much, or you will shoot the neighbor. Works for me.



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HJ

06-08-2000 21:02:08




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Carpenter Bees in reply to CHRIS-MF35, 06-01-2000 20:19:15  
Squirt a little Kritter Killer,let it enter the holes,end of problem.



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Rodney

05-08-2003 20:18:57




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Carpenter Bees in reply to HJ, 06-08-2000 21:02:08  
to get rid of carpenter bees you can spray the eaves with diazinon. After doing this go back to each hole with some type of dust or spray fill the hole and use wood putty to seal the hole. carpenter bees show up during the spring and early summer they seam to disappear for a while but each time they come back there are more each time.



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