Carpenter bees? My shed was infested with these destructive pests. This is the time of the year they make their appearance. I’ve run them off for two or three years now.
Go to a garden store and see if they have Evergreen pyrethrum dust, or an equivalent. It’s a light, fluffy dust that you squeeze into the holes the bees drill into your wood structural members. Just tell them the problem.
It’s like pole-axing the little buggers ... kind of a shame because they’re harmless otherwise, just bumbling along but they are relentless as well as destructive.
I tried sealing the holes and a number of other things, nothing worked.
“Carpenter bees? My shed was infested with these destructive pests. This is the time of the year they make their appearance. I’ve run them off for two or three years now....I tried sealing the holes and a number of other things, nothing worked.”
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I had the same problem on our rear deck for several years. I finally solved the problem by getting a long handle butterfly net and capturing them as the emerged and flew around when the weather warmed. The kids and I must have netter well over a hundred of the critters and promptly flushed them down the toilet. Finally no more seemed to be flying around. I guess we got them before they could reproduce for another generation because I haven’t seen a single one in subsequent years.
PS, chemicals were pretty well worthless as we tried that route unsuccessfully before we resorted to the manual netting and killing of them.