On Tuesday, June 2, 2015 at 6:25:32 PM UTC-5, rebel wrote:
On 6/2/2015 11:42 AM, Uncle Monster wrote:
On Tuesday, June 2, 2015 at 10:44:05 AM UTC-5, t wrote:
Just for the record. I believe these beetles often are already inside of
wood that is used in home construction. They are just waiting to grow up
and come out. They don't eat as adults, but the earlier stages bury into
and consume wood, often moist wood. They leave holes in the wood when
they tunnel out of it as adults. When they are active you can often find
sawdust like material near the holes; "chaff" or something its called. I
have some windows that I could hear noises emanating from certain months,
and I noticed birds and bees attracted to the windows. The first person I
had look into this didn't find anything---I was worried about termites
mostly. I finally figured it out (wordworm beetles) after determining the
holes were not machined (they are perfectly round and the same size as
other holes routed to hold screens etc.) and investigating online.

My guess is they are not coming in from outside the condo, but that they
are inside the wood that the condo was constructed with. LOOK FOR THE
EXIT HOLES and/or sawdust like chaff stuff. My holes were about 1/4 round
(typical size for machined holes and thus easy to overlook), most species
have smaller holes though. I sprayed Permathin mix into the holes, heard
a brief whine sound (LOL) at the 1st hole, and haven't had any new
sawdust/chaff or noises in the last few days. The eggs are laid and then
they typically hatch at least 1 year later, but they can apparently remain
dormant for over a decade. I never really saw any actual beetles (just
found one tiny one that may be unrelated), which is common. If you are
finding lots it must be pretty bad I would think; they likely will
continue to reproduce/repeat until the cycle is stopped with insecticides
or replacing the wood.

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What you describe seems like what we have here in Alabamastan where bumblebees bore into the wood outside homes. The holes are about 1/4" in diameter and you can hear a buzzing sound coming from them when the bee is inside. 8-)

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I think those are carpenter bees because we have some of those here, too.

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rebel

My mistake! It's Carpenter Bees, they just look like Bumble Bees. Brain flatulence can be a real problem for me some times. ^_^

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