Making Carpenter Bee Traps

Step 6: Success!

Now hang your traps and catch some bees.  Supposedly the corners of your house/barn/porch are the best spot for these traps.  You may have to move them around a bit depending on your situation.  Hopefully your traps will look like this one after a few days!  Thanks for taking time to read about making bee traps.  If you have carpenter bees at your house, you know you need 'em!

Comments

[shoboli]

had a guy making byrans bee butter i think thats it but epa shut him down.figures.but great trap. you can always go with a small hive of bees .have been with honey bees my whole life they are fun and they got a good treat at the end of the year.honey and bisquits cant be beat.

[ffgrif]

How do you intice them to the trap instead of the home they currently have in my facia?!

[pj735]

Mine also have no problem with pressure treated lumber. My alternate method involves a tennis racket and my shoe. Very effective as they fly slowly and are big. I think I'll try this though. Thanks for the idea.

[Abacus12]

Wow, this instructable brought a tyraid of responses. It is a great idea. It all depends on your situation and location. I have them in the facia board of a shed,
and I can hear them from inside. I inadvertantly blocked them by putting up an eaves trough in the fall. I haven,t seen any this year so far. I was blaming my teenage kids for drilling holes in my shed. A variation on the idea would be to
build that box without the bottle as a relocation program. Sadly, I realized they
were polinating my cherry trees, so no cherries this year. I think I will replace the facia boards with pressure treated lumber and provide them with an alternative housing arrangemant.

[schneebaum]

get some honey bees, start your own hive!

[triumphman]

They bore into pressure treated too! Sheet metal is the way to go!

[ferralll]

Great idea! Perfect for my log cabin. They love to get in to the untreated roof beams.

[kentdvm]

That's were I'm having the worst problems. There are so many holes I'm scared to find out what the inside of those rafters looks like.

[kbrandon]

ive been looking for something like this are porch is ruined with their "drillings" hope it works out here , Thanks

[alanemartin]

Our log house thanks you! Even at our old house, the bees would drill right through the paint on the deck railing, so I'm not sure that a finish of any type deters them.

[seanosteen]

Great Instructable! I haven't seen any new holes in my pergola yet this year, but the male carpenter bees are already circling my yard looking for a good time. So I will be making one of these very soon! Thanks for the article!

[Quizicat]

PS ...Thanks!!!

[Quizicat]

I have a cedar garage and it looks like swiss cheese. I think this is my next project!

[goddessofchaos]

They even biore into my cedar beams! I am definitely going to try this one! Thanks.