It's very easy to do yourself, and it 100% works! I have used this to get rid of Carpenter bees my whole life. You will need a can of WD40 spray, the one with the long sprayer tip at the end works best.
Spray the WD40 into each bee hole. Spray a pretty good amount, and the bees will fall out and die. This will keep the bees gone all year long.
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With all of our valuable bees dying off because of chemical toxicity, you should look to re-home the bees to a more desirable location instead of killing them off. Even carpenter bees play an important part in plant pollination.
I would love to - or pay someone to do it... do you have any recommendation?
Thats funny relocate the bees from my log home. Then next next problem is going to be catching them for relocation. Some people
I have gone through 2 WD40 cans already and have ordered 3 more from amazon as that is how large my infestation is. (Huge deck, ignored the one or two bees in previous years, now it's beemageddon!). But so far I have killed about 40 bees with the 2 cans of spray.
Don't kill the bees repel them.I have them as well but I don't kill them.
Could you please send me your mailing address so I can send you all my carpenter bees so they can enjoy destroying your home instead of mine?
WD 40 works GREAT! After spraying into their holes they back out, hit the ground and die. You can get the ones returning to nest with a good fly swatter that'll knock them out of the park.
Really? So how do you repel them? You tell them shoo shoo?
DONT KILL CARPENTER BEES. They are great pollinators and they dont sting. Females (black heads) have a stinger but are not aggressive. Males (black heads with white marks) may buzz you but have no stinger and wont hurt you.
REPEL THEM: Make a citrus spray by boiling peels of oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruit... Cover the peels with water plus 2 inches of water above. Let the water boil down to the level of the peels. Cool, fill a spray bottle, then spray around the holes. Bees are repelled but dont die unless you are mean and spray them in their nests. Remember, carpenter bees are beneficial insects. We need them.
Exactly, you can safely spray carpenter bee repellent on the stucture to keep them away. Poisons are a bad idea...not good for pets or humans for that matter, and bees are too important to be killing.
I have been using WD 40 last year and again this year it works the best when i see one go in a hole i spray it in that hole and then i find it dead not long after
I'm going to try the WD-40 to get rid of one Damn wood bee. This MFer is a Pain in the south 40. So I'm hoping WD-40 will work
WD40 works like a charm.
WD-40 spray is very effective - more so than "bee spray"..Yes I am using it on inside of faccia board which is unpainted. Kills bees in air or hole and they stay away.
It works!! Thanks
Read this moments ago, went to garage, got a can of WD-40, stood on my heavy gauge wooden banister, and sprayed into all 24 carpenter bee holes along my 40 foot exposed facia. Within minutes, 6 bees fell dead on the ground. Also sprayed entire facia along the edge as deterrent. Can't wait to monitor over the next several days.
Wow I just sprayed those wood bees with wd40 and they died so fast. I can not believe it. Happy I hate those things. Thank you ws40
We call these bees " butt head bees " because the stinger less males try to scare you away by butting you in the forehead. We took brown paper lunch bags, stuffed them with plastic grocery bags and tied them off leaving enough twine for hanging.
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