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sleek:
I have a 100 year old wooden barn that these wood carving bees are making a home of. How best to deter them from destroying my barn?

TimBo:
Sounds like carpenter bees.  Supposedly they won't burrow into painted surfaces.  You can try drilling a bunch of 3/8" holes in a few scrap 4x4s (the wood, not the vehicles...); I have read that they will use that for nests since it is less work.

Eric Krewson:
What you need are bee traps, I dumped 25 bees out of one of my traps a couple of days ago. In the years before I put out traps I had at least 6 or 7 bees drilling my deck wood all the time in different places all summer.

I caught a lot of bees every year after I put out traps and gradually went from a bunch of bees drilling to no bees drilling. I suspect they come back to where they were hatched every year and continue the cycle in the same hole, by catching them I interrupted their life cycle.

All my bee traps have been built like little birdhouses in the past with a gatorade bottle to hold the bees.

Eric Krewson:
I am building a new style this year out of a 4"X4"x6", much faster to build and hopefully will catch bees at the same rate as the older style I made in the past. I put a bunch of the new style up yesterday.

There are a lot of bee trap videos on you tube.

JonW:
We had a lot of fun with those bees and a badminton racket when we were kids  ;D

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