Hi I have a Problem with Wood bees/Carpenter Bees, which is my reason
for Posting!

Do you of you have the same problem? and if so How have you got rid of
your Wood bees?

I will be checking back later to see if any of you have ideas for me to
get rid of my Pesty problem!

Stephanie Cunningham

Stephanie S. Cunningham wrote:
Hi I have a Problem with Wood bees/Carpenter Bees, which is my reason
for Posting!

Do you of you have the same problem? and if so How have you got rid of
your Wood bees?

I will be checking back later to see if any of you have ideas for me to
get rid of my Pesty problem!

Stephanie Cunningham


First determine if they are nesting in the structure or just a large
tree. If they are in the tree, do nothing. The aggressive bees flying
about the yard will be the males but they have no stinger. If they are
nesting in the structure, at night getting any type of insecticide into
the chamber, be it liquid, aerosol or dust will kill them.
Paint/re-paint or varnish exposed wood that they will like to nest in.

Lar

"Stephanie S. Cunningham" wrote in message
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Hi I have a Problem with Wood bees/Carpenter Bees, which is my reason
for Posting!

Most college departments of entomology can find
someone to identify exactly the species of your
problem bees. This info may be helpful if you
plan to remove them yourself.

Some college departments have wild bee specialists
who might be interested in removing the nest
for their own research.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

Hi I have a Problem with Wood bees/Carpenter Bees, which is my
reason for Posting!

Most college departments of entomology can find
someone to identify exactly the species of your
problem bees. This info may be helpful if you
plan to remove them yourself.

Optionally you can take a tennis raquet and bat the hovering ones out
of the air. Then use regular wasp/bee spray on the areas of wood they
they are interested in. Keeping old wood maintained and painted will
discourage them in the long run.

Some college departments have wild bee specialists
who might be interested in removing the nest
for their own research.

Hopefully they don't remove your facia boards or fences for this
purpose.

They are nesting in the wood in my Carport, as I see the Holes in the
wood

Thank-you to everyone who responed to my Post!

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:49:41 -0500, (Stephanie S.
Cunningham) wrote:

They are nesting in the wood in my Carport, as I see the Holes in the
wood

Carpenter bees attack my cedar soffit boards. They seem to like
horizontal boards better than vertical. They are easy to recognize by
the perfectly round 3/8" or so diameter holes they make.

The most effective treatment is to dust the holes with a powdered
insecticide labeled for carpenter bees, like Drione. The bees carry
the dust deep into the burrows where it kills all the bees. After a
few days, plug the holes and then paint. Supposedly a good coat or two
of paint will deter them, but I've not found it completely effective;
they love that cedar.

Here is a place that sells a complete treatment kit; there are many
others online.

http://www.ozarkloghomesupply.com/oz...FQgTWAode3_8JQ

I plan to replace the soffit boards with PVC, painted to match the
siding. That should be a long term solution.

HTH,

Paul Franklin

i use gasoline in a sprayer and spray it in the holes at
night.works good

http://www.minibite.com/america/malone.htm

Paul Franklin wrote:


Here is a place that sells a complete treatment kit; there are many
others online.

http://www.ozarkloghomesupply.com/oz...FQgTWAode3_8JQ


A bit pricey when a $5 can of raid can give the same results....ok,
never buy raid so don't know how much it actually costs....

Lar

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:29:27 -0500, (Stephanie S.
Cunningham) wrote:

Hi I have a Problem with Wood bees/Carpenter Bees, which is my reason
for Posting!

Do you of you have the same problem? and if so How have you got rid of
your Wood bees?

I will be checking back later to see if any of you have ideas for me to
get rid of my Pesty problem!

Stephanie Cunningham



This is what I did, so just sharing my experiences, not a how-to:

* Found the holes and plugged them up. Didn't work, since they would
drill new holes. My deck was becoming swiss chees.

* Then I heard they rather use 'old' holes than redrill so I changed
my attack. I filled the existing holes, sometimes occupied, with
carpenter ant/bee powder. Then watched. The females would come out,
dust covered and try to flee. The the males would jump on here and
become poisoned and fall to the ground. Soon another female would
check out the hole, become poisoned and fly away. Get rid of the
females, then you have no hovering males.

Not a fan of poisons, but my son, then 4 years old, was attacked. A
male went into a head butting session on him, and he refused to go out
for a while.

Tom @ www.FreelancingProjects.com

Females have the stinger, males don't.

On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:26:15 -0400, Just Joshin
wrote:

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:29:27 -0500, (Stephanie S.
Cunningham) wrote:

Hi I have a Problem with Wood bees/Carpenter Bees, which is my reason
for Posting!

Do you of you have the same problem? and if so How have you got rid of
your Wood bees?

I will be checking back later to see if any of you have ideas for me to
get rid of my Pesty problem!

Stephanie Cunningham



This is what I did, so just sharing my experiences, not a how-to:

* Found the holes and plugged them up. Didn't work, since they would
drill new holes. My deck was becoming swiss chees.

* Then I heard they rather use 'old' holes than redrill so I changed
my attack. I filled the existing holes, sometimes occupied, with
carpenter ant/bee powder. Then watched. The females would come out,
dust covered and try to flee. The the males would jump on here and
become poisoned and fall to the ground. Soon another female would
check out the hole, become poisoned and fly away. Get rid of the
females, then you have no hovering males.

Not a fan of poisons, but my son, then 4 years old, was attacked. A
male went into a head butting session on him, and he refused to go out
for a while.

Tom @ www.FreelancingProjects.com

On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 17:08:58 -0400, wrote:

Females have the stinger, males don't.

Oh stop, everyone knows you shouldn't be learning about the birds and
the bees from the internet!



However, you are correct, that is why he was head bunted not stung.

later,

tom @ www.YourFunnyCaptions.com





On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:26:15 -0400, Just Joshin
wrote:

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:29:27 -0500, (Stephanie S.
Cunningham) wrote:

Hi I have a Problem with Wood bees/Carpenter Bees, which is my reason
for Posting!

Do you of you have the same problem? and if so How have you got rid of
your Wood bees?

I will be checking back later to see if any of you have ideas for me to
get rid of my Pesty problem!

Stephanie Cunningham



This is what I did, so just sharing my experiences, not a how-to:

* Found the holes and plugged them up. Didn't work, since they would
drill new holes. My deck was becoming swiss chees.

* Then I heard they rather use 'old' holes than redrill so I changed
my attack. I filled the existing holes, sometimes occupied, with
carpenter ant/bee powder. Then watched. The females would come out,
dust covered and try to flee. The the males would jump on here and
become poisoned and fall to the ground. Soon another female would
check out the hole, become poisoned and fly away. Get rid of the
females, then you have no hovering males.

Not a fan of poisons, but my son, then 4 years old, was attacked. A
male went into a head butting session on him, and he refused to go out
for a while.

Tom @ www.FreelancingProjects.com