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Eric Krewson:
Carpenter bees have been eating up my deck every summer. I have plugged holes, sprayed poison and swatted them with a tennis racket but they keep on coming. I saw an ad for bee traps, altered the design a little to accommodate a Gatorade bottle and made this one today.

The idea is, the bee checks out the predrilled hole(drilled at a 45degree angle) once inside the trap it can only see light on the bottom through the Gatorade bottle and flies to the light to leave. Once in the bottle they fly in circles until they die.

jonathan creason:
That's a pretty cool idea, I'll have to pass it on to my dad since he battles them every year.  A few years ago he got to where he could shoot them with a big rubber band, but now he just swats them with a racket.

Pat B:
Thats a cool idea. My luck a pair of Carolina wrens would move in!  :D

Bevan R.:
Think it would work for some other flying nasties? We get tons of wasps here.

Bevan R

osage outlaw:
What size hole?

Just the hole in the front, or one on each side?  It looks like a second hole on the left side in your picture.

The hole is drilled upward at a 45 degree angle?


Thanks for the idea

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