A different carpenter bee treatment

[ponykilr]

I have dusted holes with Delta and it works but I was told about a different way.

Melt Vaseline and mix Permethrin in it. Pull it up in syringes and let it cool. Squirt a little in any bee hole you find and it rubs on em and kills em. It kills any that come along later and any young when they hatch. I was told to treat monthly in the summer and to squirt a garden pea size dollop into the hole.

Will update. I am waiting for it to cool. 2 tablespoons in a full large Vaseline container.

 

[kaiser715]

I made a couple of jar-type carpenter bee traps. Emptied one just the other day, probably 20 of them buggers in it just from this spring.

Saw a trick on the internet the other day to try....take a brown paper sack, stuff it full of plastic grocery bags, tie it off with a string, and hang from the eave. Carpenter bees think it's a hornets nest and will stay away. (and it will be fun to whack it next time you have folks over on the patio)

 

[Infamous1]

I just put Sevin dust in a turkey baster and "puff" it into the holes and it does the same thing. There will be a bunch of bees on the floor in a day or three. About once a year seems to suffice for me.

 

[ponykilr]

I just put Sevin dust in a turkey baster and "puff" it into the holes and it does the same thing. There will be a bunch of bees on the floor in a day or three. About once a year seems to suffice for me.

You must not have the same level of bee-nation
Dang things are like gnats here.