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Carpenter Bees #7273849
05/27/21 06:27 PM
05/27/21 06:27 PM
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meadowview, Virginia
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Boring into pressure treated lumber!!! This hasn't happened to me before. They are boring into the 2x4s and 2x6s I used to build a roof over my grill area. It has been up of 4 years and they have not been able to attack it previously. Top quality lumber from Lowes of course. Any ideas on how to treat it to stop them? BTW they are not getting into 4x4s or 5/4 decking board, only the 2x stock.

Re: Carpenter Bees [Re: EdP] #7273850
05/27/21 06:28 PM
05/27/21 06:28 PM
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SW Georgia
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Tennis racket and kids works around here.

Re: Carpenter Bees [Re: EdP] #7273853
05/27/21 06:30 PM
05/27/21 06:30 PM
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" Sevin" dust into the bore holes.No more bees.


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Re: Carpenter Bees [Re: EdP] #7273878
05/27/21 06:57 PM
05/27/21 06:57 PM
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NW MO
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NW MO
Last summer I painted mine. They are appearing so will see how it goes.

Re: Carpenter Bees [Re: EdP] #7273895
05/27/21 07:29 PM
05/27/21 07:29 PM
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Oakland, MS
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Oakland, MS
Permethrin works but need to treat yearly. It also works on the red wasps as well. Not as much fun as shooting them with my 45 using home brewed # 12 shot shells.


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Re: Carpenter Bees [Re: EdP] #7273898
05/27/21 07:33 PM
05/27/21 07:33 PM
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central Illinois
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Same here drifter. .22lr bird shot.




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Re: Carpenter Bees [Re: yoteguts] #7273899
05/27/21 07:35 PM
05/27/21 07:35 PM
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Originally Posted by yoteguts
Same here drifter. .22lr bird shot.

I was going to say build a bee trap, but this is ingenious.

Re: Carpenter Bees [Re: EdP] #7273928
05/27/21 08:28 PM
05/27/21 08:28 PM
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Asheville, NC
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pack the hole with Seven and peanut butter blend.

Last edited by charles; 05/27/21 08:29 PM.
Re: Carpenter Bees [Re: EdP] #7273930
05/27/21 08:41 PM
05/27/21 08:41 PM
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Jeddo, MI
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I plug the holes with a chunk of dowel. The end grain seems to be too hard for them to bore through. 3/8 dowel if I remember right. It deters them for a while.

Last edited by put'n the dog on; 05/27/21 08:41 PM.

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Re: Carpenter Bees [Re: EdP] #7273936
05/27/21 08:45 PM
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bee traps work

Re: Carpenter Bees [Re: EdP] #7273946
05/27/21 08:49 PM
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Iowa
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I have never seen a carpenter bee.

Re: Carpenter Bees [Re: EdP] #7273948
05/27/21 08:50 PM
05/27/21 08:50 PM
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New York border
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Flyswatter.
They very rarely sting , so it is safe.


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Re: Carpenter Bees [Re: EdP] #7273959
05/27/21 09:03 PM
05/27/21 09:03 PM
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Western Shore Delaware
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Re: Carpenter Bees [Re: EdP] #7273977
05/27/21 09:27 PM
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Little kids plastic bat did a lot of them in when my son was little. Tennis racquet is a high success tool.

If you can catch one with chopsticks you are the king laugh

Re: Carpenter Bees [Re: EdP] #7273980
05/27/21 09:32 PM
05/27/21 09:32 PM
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Tennessee
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I waited for a dry spell and then soaked the wood with a solution of permethrin. I built my chicken run out of poplar that I milled myself. And it seemed to be like candy for those guys. Since that soaking I find the odd carpenter bee dead on the ground and some scratches where they tried to make a hole.


Let's go Brandon

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Re: Carpenter Bees [Re: trapdog1] #7274043
05/27/21 10:31 PM
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Virginia
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Originally Posted by trapdog1
I have never seen a carpenter bee.

They are the ones which wear the big leather tool belt and charge too much, but no one can drill a cleaner 3/8" hole like they can.

Last edited by 52Carl; 05/28/21 10:32 PM. Reason: I spell like a trapper
Re: Carpenter Bees [Re: EdP] #7274060
05/27/21 10:40 PM
05/27/21 10:40 PM
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Georgia
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Today's pressure treat ain't the old pressure treat. The old stuff used arsenic compounds to combat insects, which is why we no longer have it. The new uses copper compounds which is mainly anti fungal.


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Re: Carpenter Bees [Re: EdP] #7274065
05/27/21 10:47 PM
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central arkansas
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Long pole, pool cleaning net. Scoop em out the air, turn net upside down toward the ground. Then step on them while they're in the net


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Re: Carpenter Bees [Re: EdP] #7274068
05/27/21 10:53 PM
05/27/21 10:53 PM
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NC
Paint the wood. They only go for raw wood surfaces. Then get a can of carpenter bee spray from your big box store, stick the tube up in the hole and foam it up. When it drys then get a tube of some kine of caulk and squirt it in the hole to seal it off.

When you paint treated wood it take something like Kills for it to stick to the wood and the green crap not to bleed through. Ask the paint dept at your big box what to use to paint treated wood.

Last edited by Mac McAtee; 05/27/21 10:54 PM.

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Re: Carpenter Bees [Re: Mac McAtee] #7274121
05/27/21 11:53 PM
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Trapdog1 they look like bumblebees but fly faster

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