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Go to www.doityourselfpestcontrol.com
This site will give you all the info you need to kill off any insect. They ship UPS to the lower 48 states. I have bought Tempo SC insecticide from them and it works great for Carpenter ants.
 
Not easy, Paint all the exposed wood works. Or spray it with insecticide. they eat on the poison wood and die.
 
Are these bees that look like bumblebees? If so, I've got some of them here in NE Illinois, never seen them before. They are driling 3/8" holes in my log siding house, ordinary wasp killer has not killed many of them.
 
They really seem bad this year. For everyone I take down with a badminton racket, there is another to take its place. Can't let the wife see me smacking bees, she says I already have a screw loose.
 
I just spray areas with Sevin. Not a lot you can do other than that. Man them things can devour wood, can't they? I don't think they sting, but after seeing the holes they chew in my wood, I've gotta think they could really take a chomp out of ya if they really wanted.

This year no honey bees or yellow jackets, only bumble bees and them wood eating son of a guns.

Mark
 
do you apply this to the eaves or each individual hole?
They mainly seem to drill into my eaves...i hope to hell the don't get to my roof joists.
 
yesterday was the start of my yearly battle with them. I have a little rig I sling over my shoulder and take with me up the ladder an onto the roof. It consists of 5 quarts of Terminate, 1 can of CRC brake clean, a turkey baster full of Sevin dust and a caulking gun. First thing I do is located their holes and spray into them with the brake clean. If there's a bee in the hole, it dies right now. I also use the brake clean on any of them that come near me. Then I wash the area with a hose, wait for it to dry. Then caulk the holes. Then I spray the Terminate all over, lay down the sevin dust to take care of the ones that return. If you don't kill all of those little Bast*&ds, they'll drill a new hole right away. That's why I wash the house, so I can see any new areas where they drill. I wish there was something that would deter them.
 
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