I saw an interesting article the other day on how to get rid of carpenter bees.
It said to fill a brown plastic grocery bag with more grocery bags and squeeze it around until it is ovalized. Tie the handles together and hang it from the eaves of the building where the carpenter bees are.
The bees think it is a big wasp’s nest and will leave.
I can’t vouch for the effectiveness of the trick but it is simple and not too time consuming. Might be worth a try.
I have seen that before when people try to use it to get rid of wasps.
I will give it a try.
I have a good luck with a trap that I bought off Etsy but the one from Lowes is useless.
My bees could care less about that one
Same thing works for wasps except I use a brown paper bag just stuffed with something to give it some bulk. Hang one in the barn on each side and no wasps. They are scared to death of hornets and think it is a hornet nest.
I hang my camper shell up from the rafters of the barn shed, put a fluffed up paper bag in it, no dirt dobbers or wasps at all.
The Indians around here say if you take an old boot, catch it on fire then put it out and drag the smoldering boot around the yard you won’t have any snakes inside the perimeter either. Somehow I am skeptical of that one but the hornet nest thing works and the Indians put me on to that one too
My neighbor tried that. The bees moved over to my house.
It works, Bartholomew Roberts.
And, it was almost immediate for us.
They still are at work in the barn, but WD40 works well, down there.