On Monday, May 12, 1997 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Brian Funk wrote:

In article
<Pine.A32.3.92.970508235757.14768B-100000@RS2.npt.nuwc.navy.mil>, Gary Huntress <huntress@RS2.npt.nuwc.navy.mil> wrote:

...............................................they look like bumblebees ......and they seem to have taken a fancy to the trim on my house

Is there an easy way do deal with these guys?

My plan is to attack each hole with raid, sprayed deep inside (the holes are the size of my index finger (no I havent stuck it in...)) to kill bee/larva, then to fill the hole with latex caulk or putty, then prime and paint.

I have had some success doing as you suggest. And while some folks have
said that nothing touches them, my experience is that while very few
things knock them out of the air (tennis racket for instance), most
poisons (raid) commonly used around the house for other insect
infestations does kill them.

I had an infestation outside my back porch in an old telephone pole. I
soaked the hole with raid and watched as one after another carpenter bee struggled and fell out of the hole on to the ground and died.

I had the same results on my front porch and in a redwood trimmed stable! Just silicone or putty up the holes and KEEP THE WOOD PAINTED!

As a kid I battled them in the wood pile with lady finger firecrackers.
One to a hole. POP!

brian

What kind of raid did you use?

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