Carpenter Bees

danofarming · May 10, 2014

I made some "Bee Butter" used some pyrethrin back rubber stuff for
flies and some tube grease. it appears to be working. smeared it in
and around the drill holes so that the little drillers have to crawl
through it!

PJH · May 10, 2014

I've used Insectrin - the stuff you use for cattle spray. Stick the wand in their hole and spray it full. Puts a dent in their lifestyle. There's so many holes in our old barn lean-to that I can't believe it hasn't broken down yet.

pete black · May 10, 2014

early morning find an active hole with fresh saw dust under it. morning hours bee is still in hole. place straw of wd40 in hole at an angle and with 1 short spray is all it takes.

Wile E · May 10, 2014

You need to buy the right poison to kill them correctly. Go to www.doityourselfpestcontrol.com Just type carpenter bees in the search engine on the website and they will tell you the right poison to buy.

jeffcat · May 10, 2014

Couple of years ago I helped a friend with a log cabin. The back porch looked like swiss cheese! The stuff that worked was "7" powder and a puffer. Blow it into the holes and then I sealed them with brown color liquid nail. Tried silicone sealant and the next day they had chewed through it. THE BEST THING... grab a tennis raquet and nail them!!! I got 63 of them in a little over an hour one sunny afternoon. The raquet makes a really nice PANG when you nail one! Jeffcat

Anonymous-0 · May 10, 2014

They are eating our tobacco barns and sheds up, I got a couple bee traps with a jar on the bottom, caught about four in each. I went out yesterday to check them with a badmitton raquet,m killed forty in 15 mins.

uncle henry · May 10, 2014

Badmintons work good too

IH2444 · May 10, 2014

Just spray in the holes good with a pyrethin solution. Bees going in there will die. Lasts all summer and into the next year.

Walk backwards to spray them so you do not get dripped on.

bingo · May 10, 2014

Get you some 22 shot shells and a old gun and shoot them, when they buzz around and stop in mid air you can tear them up-----Lot of fun!!!!!!!!!!!!

da.bees · May 11, 2014

Grandkids and me been swatting bees for 3 years. First year we noticed some recovered and flew away. I replaced the webs with thin steel wire in alternating holes. Thinner web material plus twice the mash size speeds up the rackets and amputates body parts on impact. Useing a paint roller on an extension pole to paint the bottom of rafters and ceiling joists eleminates the majority of hole boreing. Of course painting isn't near as much fun as helping kids hit them with rackets. I noticed them around clover blossoms this week so may let the kids try shot sheels in a 22 rifle. I don't do any wing shooting since my son commented on my accuracy. I busted off 3 rounds at a dove that was still flying when he flew out of sight. Son told the boys that they had just witnessed a scientific miracle when that dead bird flew away after Papaw killed it.

Dr. Walt · May 11, 2014

Easiest & cheapest way to kill Bees is with Dish Soap. All Bees have an Exo-skeleton, and they breathe through their skin. Coat them with SOAPY WATER and they suffocate. Being a wildland firefighter I have my own bladder-bag backpack extinguisher that holds 5 gallons of water. I mix in 1 ounce of the cheapest IVORY dish soap that I can find. Ivory has more "wetting agent" than the other brands. Spray the Bees & their hive with the soapy water, or in the case of the Carpenter Bees shoot it into their holes. Bees can't survive if they can't breathe.

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