Carpenter Bee Wars

[Raul-02]

About all this:
Don't you think it is strange that the Biblical Plague of these critters that should have elicited a serious response from the pest control industry hasn't?
It's a friggin Bug.
The pest control insecticide industry seems to be playing it deliberately mum.
I see no adverts no label instructions no reference to these critters at all anywhere.
I gotta wonder why.
Are the Illuminati, the Opus Dei, the Rothchilds, The Ghost of Kurt Cobain, The Little Sisters of the Poor, John Todd, and the International cult of Witches all in cahoots to keep this plague rolling? Is she who must not be named at the head of it all?
You know who she is.

You'd think that somewhere, maybe on the same channels that advertise the Banjo Minnow
and those ridiculous vegetable pills there'd be Carpenter Bee treatments.
BUY NOW AND GET A FREE SET OF GINZU STREAK KNIVES

 

[Raul-02]

this is what I spray f

38% permethryn

 

[dieselscout80]

I did not know carpenter bee were pollinators too.
https://www.foxcarolina.com/2022/05/23/how-get-rid-carpenter-bees-what-works-what-doesnt/

 

[Jstpssng]

There is one that seems immune from my poisons.
I'm getting out the shotgun

Get some bird shot for your .22, it will do less collateral damage.

 

[kenmac]

38% permethryn

All I know is, it works keeping them from eating my barns down

 

[Raul-02]

All I know is, it works keeping them from eating my barns down

permethryn is the stuff to use.

It's so sad that we don't have perfectly good and completely safe chlordane any more

 

[Raul-02]

I did not know carpenter bee were pollinators too.

Yah they love flowers.

 

[Raul-02]

I'm going to do something weird.
I am going to cultivate these little stinkers.
I have a large-ish garden that I'm building. I will get some of that unwanted warped pine from the dirt-cheap-bin from the BORG and our up Bee habitats nailed to trees out on the other side of the garden.
That way maybe I can benefit from their aggressive pollination while keeping them far from the house.
And if one so much as thinks about my house, I'll slaughter its whole family and make it watch while I shoot its dog.

 

[kenmac]

permethryn is the stuff to use.

It's so sad that we don't have perfectly good and completely safe chlordane any more

what's strange is. I never had an issue with these destructive bees when I lived in the city.
Issue began after selling out in the city, and moving to the country.

 

[Raul-02]

I never had an issue with these destructive bees when I lived in the city.

The bees don't like cities. they hate the noise.

 

[tallyho8]

I have 3 homemade traps using the 4x4 block and bottle method. They work fine. But they do nothing to protect the buildings. They only capture the bee stupid enough to go inside. The other dozen flying around are not affected at all. I'm looking for a deterrent.

Maybe if you cut the bees heads off and stick them on little toothpicks around the barn.

 

[kenmac]

The bees don't like cities. they hate the noise.

I need to sell the farm and move back. Let the bees have it

 

[Raul-02]

Maybe if you cut the bees heads off and stick them on little toothpicks around the barn.

and stick pins in the eyes.

 

[Gem99ultra]

Thanks for posting this...I've read they don't like painted wood and was considering painting the bottoms of my porch beams as added protection.

Ha! I just learned today that one must use oil based paint. Naturally, I used latex.

Danged if I'm going to repaint that entire potting soil table, but I may try to go back over underneath the shelves and table top. That seems to be the carpenter bees' favorite incubator.