For years I fought them little guy while they tried destroying my beautiful deck I worked so hard on. Tried about everything including building traps. Nothing kept them from drilling into the 2x4 turned sideways under the top part of the side Guardrails. I finally 2 years ago covered the wood all around with metal flashing and I have not had a problem since.
Enjoy watching your vids. I built a wooden roofing structure similar to that and liberally brushed on the old tried and true mixture of diesel fuel and burnt motor oil, five years later and I haven't been hit by one bee or any termites,...can't blame em'.
I live in east Tennessee. WD-40 is my go to for Carpenter bees (we call them "wood bees") because if you spray it in the holes, they won't go back in for the rest of the season, then in the fall, just push a small amount of steel wool into the hole and fill with wood putty. Wood siding and fascia takes a beating in the spring around here.
I was in my crawlspace of my house (built 1960) and noticed some of the old growth fir strapping used to hold insulation to the foundation wall that wasn't being used anymore had capenter bee damage. I took it out and made some fantastic laquered table legs with it. I couldn't replicate that look with tools if I tried!
I've always used dish soap to kill bees and wasps since I think it does a better job of gumming up their wings while still suffocating them. I've put dish soap and water in a pressure sprayer and pretty good luck just coating everything in relatively concentrated dish soap.
I think I’d be putting bird and bat boxes around, attract wildlife that naturally predates the unwanted bugs. Also, would giving the wood a wipe with an old engine oily rag deter them? My mates grandpa used to mix old engine oil with creosote 50-50 mix as a wood preservative. How about get a length of 2 by 4 for a test setup to see how many bees will nest in it and how long it takes them to destroy? All data is interesting data.
In Alaska, we use the spray Electromotive, the red/ white can, not the green one, for the yellow jacket bees. They don’t even kick, they are done done immediately. They get into electrical equipment outside, the Electromotive leaves no residue.
Nice video...I had like 12- 14 flying aggressively around us and eating the wood close to our kitchen close to roof...so to bring them down I used rubberized spray paint...I sprayed a little bit..and to the floor..after it went down to 4 I was able to climb on ladder to put some poison in the hole
I use Mr. Clean got at dollar store then; 1 1/2 cup in spray bottle with little water on wasps. Keeps fresh smell around house instead of oil smell. Works for me & saves my oil for carpenter bees.
Subbed! We’re going to test our wooden bench on our balcony tomorrow. For a while now we’re dealing with the carpenter bees again. A year ago in Milledgeville ga and now Cornelia ga. I’m sick of them eating up our inherited bench
I built something similiar and it caught one. What I ended up doing is filling in all their holes with silicone and priming and painting all the wood, they don't prefer painted wood.I did spray insectide in before siliconing it closed as well. I have't seen one around the areas I primed and painted. I don't think they like the taste of paint so just go elsewhere.
Remember ! The bee excavates in then turns 90 degrees. Spray oil in and at an angle until the oil back flushes. Watch for the departure. Don't forget to plug the hole with wood, putty, calking, a pebble, plastic, ect. They will reuse the chambers. Find your victims and smhush 'em if you can. Oil base paint helps deter them. Build and hang traps out of untreated scrap wood and some small jars.
Matt Ryan I always have a little break cleaner around, and I can use brake cleaner in my house when one gets in the house because it doesn’t leave any residue or dangerous chemicals around food preparation areas or pets.
I’ve watched a few vids on how to make the trap with wood and jar, but none of them show or say whether or not it worked. Do these traps work? I like idea of preventing them from destroying my shed rather than waiting til I see holes.
Hmm, I wonder if they'd avoid treated lumber? But then that costs more than other lumber, especially the free kind. Have you noticed whether they like the modern wide-grained better than the century-old stuff? Probably softer/damper and easier to chew through, I'd think.
Haha i remember my uncle bought me a GBA game when i was a kid for going around his property killing wasps with wd 40, never dealt with carpenter bees their holes give you a nice little application point by the look of it compared to paper nests
@@RinoaL Yeah all the gba ports of the original three had that i believe, i hated it at first but became super good at it after a while, with friends it's actually quite exciting though you could tell they were kind of still figuring out the jump momentum
I have seen this guy on you tube using a soap and water mix to kill killer bees. He said that with the soap its hard for them to fly, also bees breath thru a set of gills at there torso, the soap plugs them and they die.
I have 8 house's in tennessee the only way I've been able to keep them under control is offer my tenant's $1.00 a bee .I buy butterfly nets at the dollar store and give them out every spring. This year maybe got 100 of them.
Yeah-pretty sure you’re bad ass. Braver than hell to climb up there; spray, film, entertain the audience and not get a single battle wound. You are glorious 🥰
Can’t ya spray your wood with something like penetrating oil or linseed oil to deter them ? We don’t have them up here as far as I know . We do have ground wasps and oil and gas works on them 🔥 lol
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Im just looking to get the WD40 to get rid of these carpenter bees, but there are so many different types of WD40 to buy and i don't know which type of WD40 to get, can anyone help?
I ran into that issue recently as well, however I decided to get the one that says it's the new formula and it still works perfectly fine for the bees. I think anything close to WD40 will still work tbh, even PB Blaster.
They come out in the spring and again in the fall. At least here in southern Mississippi. They are attracted mostly by wisteria blossoms, which my wife insists on having in the yard.
@@RinoaL but you do have a shortage of normal bees, and these ones are picking up the slack. Lots of people here make "houses" for them and treat the vulnerable parts of their house. Around my house, the bees just use the same nests year after year, pulling old corpses out of them in the early spring and saving themselves the trouble of building a whole new nest.
@@RinoaL Without workers to feed them, the grubs wind up dying. And the residue of WD-40 leaves a toxic environment for their sensitive bodies. As they grow, it's a long time before they have exoskeletons, in the meantime they are quite delicate.
ME. Why does your shed smell like WD-40 and why is there a weird upside down stump jar a whole thing on the side of your shed. YOU. I use WD-40WD-40 to kill the carpenter bees 🐝 and The jar thing four uuuum?!?! ME what happens if the WD-40 catches on fire 🔥 You oh s!?#t aaaaaaaa o no
Well the reason I said WD-40 would catch on fire is not like it would spontaneously catch on fire 🔥 i’m saying that if there’s like an electrical spark or like some sparks from like welding or some other source that it would be a lot easier to start a fire with WD-40 because it’s basically oil and it’s very flammable especially when you spray it directly on toward the wall it would absorb the WD-40 and it would basically be a WIC like Anna candle and it might accelerate a fire or mean it would spread faster so yeah ass out if there’s a carpenter bee nest I wouldn’t do the WD-40 thing if it was over like your new lays table or whatever it is so yeah it might just blow up because of the sparks ⚡️
Well I didn’t say the WD-40 would spontaneously combust I’m saying in the electrical spark could catch it on fire but the chances of that happening are extremely slim so you should probably not worry about it for us so this is comment was usually meant as a joke so yeah PS I do know the WD-40 is actually flammable I sprayed it on a piece of cardboard and then tried lip a cardboard on fire and it was pretty good I catching on fire so yeah WD-40 is flammable PS the first comment was basically meant as a joke
My grandpa used to pay me a quarter per bee I knocked down and killed. They will drill holes in wood structures and it could cause the structure to become weaker
honey bees are also an invasive species that are causing an extinction event with natural bees. kinda funny how warped people's perception of reality it.
