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Just Joshin

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:29:27 -0500, (Stephanie S.
Cunningham) wrote:

Hi I have a Problem with Wood bees/Carpenter Bees, which is my reason
for Posting!

Do you of you have the same problem? and if so How have you got rid of
your Wood bees?

I will be checking back later to see if any of you have ideas for me to
get rid of my Pesty problem!

Stephanie Cunningham

This is what I did, so just sharing my experiences, not a how-to:

* Found the holes and plugged them up. Didn't work, since they would
drill new holes. My deck was becoming swiss chees.

* Then I heard they rather use 'old' holes than redrill so I changed
my attack. I filled the existing holes, sometimes occupied, with
carpenter ant/bee powder. Then watched. The females would come out,
dust covered and try to flee. The the males would jump on here and
become poisoned and fall to the ground. Soon another female would
check out the hole, become poisoned and fly away. Get rid of the
females, then you have no hovering males.

Not a fan of poisons, but my son, then 4 years old, was attacked. A
male went into a head butting session on him, and he refused to go out
for a while.

Tom @ www.FreelancingProjects.com