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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Xargos on July 14, 2005, 01:36:46 PM
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Anyone know how to get rid of Woodbees (Woodbores)? They are boring holes into my porch and the bugman said no one knows how to get rid of them?
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Originally posted by Xargos
Anyone know how to get rid of Woodbees (Woodbores)? They are boring holes into my porch and the bugman said no one knows how to get rid of them?
set the porch on fire and step on them as the flee the flames !
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Don't know how to get rid of them, I just kill them one at a time as I find them with the foaming Bee killer. If you find anything out, let me know!!
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boric acid
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I would use Tempo made by Bayer. It is a great insecticide, labeled for carpenter bees, and is extremely safe around pets and kids. In fact it's labeled for food prep areas. Great product.
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Bayer has some great products. They have a fire ant mound killer that works better than any product I have ever seen.
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Nothing short of Thermal Nucular Annilation....your neighors will be impressed!
:aok
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As a kid I always enjoyed using an old tennis or badminton racket.
Now I just wait till the bee goes into his hole and then shoot some bee/hornet/wasp killer in the hole and kill him in the hole.
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"I say we take off and nuke the place from orbit; it's the only way to be sure!"
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i got some in my porch too.. and umm.. I can't wait to tell the guy who has to replace our overhang...
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Originally posted by SEgunner
As a kid I always enjoyed using an old tennis or badminton racket.
Hehe. Yep, I can relate. We used to grab a couple of ping pong paddles and head for the barn for some redneck tennis.
I coined the phrae " They may be Wood Bees now, but they are about to be Has Beens".
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I did very well with Airsoft 6mm BB guns.
M-4 Carbine and Beretta 92f Military models. Over a period of maybe a week I killed 20 or so and have not had any problems since. On an interesting note, when I got what I thought to be the queen bee she spattered with a very orange blood type goo substance.
Too much fun!
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Originally posted by Golfer
I did very well with Airsoft 6mm BB guns.
M-4 Carbine and Beretta 92f Military models. Over a period of maybe a week I killed 20 or so and have not had any problems since. On an interesting note, when I got what I thought to be the queen bee she spattered with a very orange blood type goo substance.
Too much fun!
Trying to picture Golfer's "saved" porch with 9mm and 5.56mm
Golfer holes through it ;)
"Sorry Maam, we had to wipe out the porch to "pacify" it" :rofl
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A bug big enough to shoot? Yegads.
Is this one?:
(http://www.dallasbutterflies.com/Moths/pics/prionoxystusrobiniae.jpg)
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Hard Drying Epoxy. Fill Holes. Laugh as Bees Cant Get out or in.
Of Course I never tried this, But It seems logical without bees bringing in food to the Queen and Larvae, They couldnt survive.
Of course thier wood boring bees, so there is a chance it could create a bigger problem? Who Knows... Try it out.
We had a Car Port, that the bees absolutley loved. I Would grab a Stick or Pipe or anything and swat them down for hours.
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They're actually Carpenter Bees.
Here's a photo:
(http://www.doyourownpestcontrol.com/carpenterbee.gif)
I found great success shooting them using green 6mm Airsoft BBs and getting them while they hovered near the nests they 'drilled' into our patio. The spring-loaded airsoft guns were powerful enough to knock them down and made it a simple task of killing them using the human foot. Occasionally if you hit one right it would pop or just die on impact but I found this to be rare.
Never had the need to get the Remington 11-87 with my skeet loads :) Muahahaha! I save those for spiders.
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The old tennis racket was always a lot of fun took some skill to. We did finally find an exterminator he used some kind of powder I dont remember what it was called. The powder did a prity good job for a few weeks a month but we would always have to call the exterminator to come back. After he was done you wait till dusk try to find all the holes spray bee killer in them and fill the holes with some thing like caulk, woodfiller or silacone. It turned out that the best thing i did was put a heavy coat of stain on the deck That kept all but a very few from finding there way back. Beware though they will return with a vengence once you get them off your deck they will come back and attack every peace of wood in your house they can find they even got up into my attic now thats determination. They seem to eventually get peed-off and clever finding all kinds of places that are the most difficult to get to. Two years after staining my deck I spent 3200 dollars in other repaires trim and soffet boards mostly way up high where I was not willing to go. The contracktor cut one of the infected boards to show the damage i thought they burrowed into the wood maybe an inch or two was i shocked they would go anywere from 8 to 18 inches deep. Anyway what i found is the best way to get rid of them is paint and stain. One of my neighbors says that you can now get bate type killers a peace of wood with some kind of chemical that killes them when they burrow in but just incase always keep a tennis racket handy. good luck