Carpenter bees
Good morning all, i have carpenter bees eating my house. i've called exterminators and they say that North Carolina does not consider them pests and therefore they can not use their pesticides on them. Last year i found some stuff at my favorite store (Lowe's) but it uses water to spray onto the house. Since the carpenter bees loves the burrowing into the small ridges, i basically sprayed water (and pesticide) into the wood of my house - which i don't think is a very good thing either. So i'm pretty much at a loss. Do i let the bees eat my house or do i force water into the wood of my house? Any other suggestions???? lacey
Do you have insurance on your house. If you do try calling them and tell them about the problem and ask what to do. Depending on the policy they will have to pay for the damage. Another idea is try to find a pest company that will spray for something else that will also kill the bees. Say it is for yellow jackets or something. You could also buy wasp/yellow jacket spray and try that. Of course burning the house down will also take care of them but then you will have some other problems(Just kidding.)
If there outside where they can go in your attic you can turn up the AC and they will drop like flies. They can't stand the cold. My husband's company had bees flying in and he just turn the AC up. Hope this helps. Good Luck!! :)
I remember somebody saying that carpenter bees don't like cold. You if that are true maybe you could use air conditioning refrigerant to freeze them. You can go to your local electronics store and buy "canned air" it is the new R134a refergiant, place the straw that comes with it in the end and hold the can upside down. That way the liquid will come out and believe me it freezes anything it touches. Be careful though wear gloves the can will get very cold and make sure there is good ventilation because it is heavier than air. also have yellow jackets and wasps flying around. What else can you expect when you live in the woods in the mountains of Eastern West Virginia!
I lived most of my adult life in the Hawaiian Islands and was a builder/developer. Carpenter Bees were always a problem. Interesting about the bees are, they usually will not bore into boards that are less than 1" in depth. These bees use a sonar like sound resinence to check for depth. If it will not accept the full depth of there body they won't bore into it. We used, on the average once a year, a 15% penta solution mixed into whatever material that we were applying to the building whether it be paint or a clear natural or tinted stain. This slowed the little rascals way down.