Wood Bees

[Joanna]

Everybody's a comedian        

[Diane Amberg]

Would you believe a very long pole, like bamboo or such with an insecticide soaked rag or cotton that you could poke in the holes? Some wasp sprays have a very long spray and might reach... Or call your Ag extension?

[Diane Amberg]

Time to get serious. NBS30 is a repellent. Works to repel wood bees ,doesn't kill them. Mix 3.2oz. per gal. in a pump sprayer and you might get it high where you need it. Spray 1 gal. per 500 square feet. You may need to respray a couple of times during the season. An insecticide that also repels is Cypermethrin spray.  Read and follow all directions carefully.

[Joanna]

Thanks Diane... but I don't do well with spraying over my head... it would end up being a stinky chemical shower for me... I've seen myself at work and I can say for sure it would not end well 
I have some of that wasp spray that goes 25 or 30 foot, but while I am a good shot with a firearm, for some reason all I can hit is the side of the barn with that spray can. LOL!
I'll drag out the ladder and caulk gun and give that a try, maybe in a couple days when Flo is working so I won't have to come down and answer the phone a dozen times... you know it never rings till you can't possibly answer it. HA! I don't think a long pole would work because I couldn't get at the right angle to do any good.

Varmit, the only way that carport is going somewhere is in a tornado and I'm not expecting one soon because my insurance is paid up.

[Diane Amberg]

So have you had time to vanquish those wood bees yet? I'm still trying to come up with something better than a body sized trash bag and an umbrella.

[Joanna]

well, I did actually try the spray while standing in the doorway and slamming it shut before the stuff drifted back down. It was a little messy, but I haven't seen the bees for a couple days since, but I can't imagine I scared them off. We'll see...

[Wilma]

You probably scared them off.  Who wouldn't run when a mad woman points a can at you then slams the door in your face?

[larryJ]

yeah, been there, done that-----------ouch

Larryj

[Sarah]

I know they won't bore into painted wood.  I just spray their holes with wasp and hornet spray and it usually makes them leave.

Honestly, I have never seen a bore bee in the garden, but I have seen them on flowers. 

[srkruzich]

I don't know about wood bees, but I have some bees bigger than honey bees working my flowers.  I know they aren't bumble bees or wood bees.

Probably bumbles.  wood bees don't produce honey.  Only thing they produce is holes and sawdust.