I have to speak up for the carpenter bees! I know they're destructive, but they don't sting and they're adorable with their cute yellow noses and I love them. We have spent many hours hanging out with them on our porch. Yes, they're excavating the railings, but... stuff was starting to rot when the family bought the place, and it's all gonna have to be replaced anyway. My kids even built houses for them, which they moved into-- I wonder if that strategy might help others limit damage to their wood structures without killing the bees?
The kids took scrap boards a foot or more in length, measured the diameter of the existing bee holes, picked a matching drill-bit, and drilled a couple holes in the underside of each board-- then we attached the boards to the porch railing and the bees moved in. So cool!
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carpenter bees
Date: 2022-01-19 10:26 pm (UTC)The kids took scrap boards a foot or more in length, measured the diameter of the existing bee holes, picked a matching drill-bit, and drilled a couple holes in the underside of each board-- then we attached the boards to the porch railing and the bees moved in. So cool!