Posted: 5/25/2014 9:35:57 PM EDT
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This our first summer in this older house.
The previous owner built a roof over the back porch. It is a very basic slant roof with exposed rafters. Carpenter bees have started boring holes in the rafters. From the looks of things this is the first time they have done this. Is there anyway to stop them? Would like for it to last a couple of years till we build a bigger covered screened in porch. |
| I use Drione dust in a bulb duster with a really long / thin extension on it so I can get in the holes and cracks easier. Seems to be working. I have tried the hanging / bottle traps and they did work for a while but did not eliminate the problem. I keep honey bees on my property and this direct dust method only kills the carpenter bees. |
I have waged war this spring. I have killed over 250 thus far. Yesterday I did not even see one .
Prior to that it was bee central. I went at it three ways. 1. Knock them out of the air and crush under foot while outside. It can bee  effective if you take every opportunity to annihilate your nemesis.
2. Demon WP mixed in a sprayer. Hose down all wood surfaces where they bore, nibble, crawl. This is your secret weapon. It kills remotely. A week or two later more bees had appeared but were dead by the 20's and 30s every day, I was ecstatic and would go count how many were dead each morning before work. 3. WD-40 in the hole. This does them in. Nothing more satisfying than seeing your adversary buzz meekly trying to escape, only to succumb to the effects and drop to the ground lifeless upon exiting their abode. Even though I am not seeing bees, I retreat the holes weekly till I get around to filling them in. I had to go all in, against these SOBs. They were destroying the fascia boards on my log home and barn. I killed everyone I saw. I mean it, if I were grilling, the food ran the risk of being burned as I pursued the bee to its demise. This ultimate dedication to the eradication of the carpenter bee species has become my sole life mission  behind providing for my wife and daughter.
Genocide, I aim to erase them from the memory of the peoples of the earth. If the wood is painted, repaint after filling the holes. Bees prefer untreated wood over a painted surface. |
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GD thread, but there is trap info on them here.
http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1627895_Bumble_bee_identification.html |
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I don't know if this is epa certified but my grandfather used this and never
Had a problem with the carpenter bees in his overhang He would take motor oil and rub down his rafters It didn't stain the wood noticeably and the carpenter bees did NOT like it Lasted for years |
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I've been amusing myself all spring watching a bunch of carpenter bees devour a small picnic table at work. Each bee will dump a pile of sawdust twice as big as his body each day. I expect the thing to be a shell by mid summer and am eager to see how far they get to reducing the thing to sawdust.
This past weekend I noticed three piles of sawdust on the porch roof which apparently came from the upstairs soffit. I sic'ed the Orkin man on those. Apparently bees are like real estate, location is everything.
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I don't know if this is epa certified but my grandfather used this and never Had a problem with the carpenter bees in his overhang He would take motor oil and rub down his rafters It didn't stain the wood noticeably and the carpenter bees did NOT like it Lasted for years This works great. I even mop used motor oil on the concrete floor of my tractor shed - paint all the farm equipment that gets stored outside over the winter with it - just clean it up with a pressure washer in the spring - also used it on fence posts - barn wood - to hell with the EPA |