Let’s look at the habits and life cycle of carpenter bees for clues to peaceful coexistence, so we can figure out how to deal with them come spring. ” There’s a disconnect between good intentions and deadly results. I’ve noticed that DIY bee trap construction instructions are all very “can do,” but tend to end in a passive, distanced voice – “accumulations of dead bees are disposed of by unscrewing and rinsing out the bottle. It seems like every time I do an Internet search to understand the life cycle of a particular insect, what comes up first is recommended insecticides and ads for pest control services. Why plant gardens to attract bees and then kill them as soon as they make themselves at home? Judging by the bee traps I see hanging from so many eaves, people are going nuts trying to get rid of them.īut why jump straight from establishing pollinator pathways to going on the warpath against the bees? They just quietly demolish my house to slurp up juicy bee larvae inside tunnels. It’s not noisy, like mating season drumming on gutters. After a few weeks, woodpeckers start hammering away.Looking up, I see fresh perfectly round ½” holes in trim under the eaves.Followed by fans of waxy bee excrement splattered on siding and stuck in window screens.Fine sawdust particles drift like gently falling snow past the windows.When I go outdoors I get divebombed – too close for comfort.Looking out the window, I find myself face-to-face with what looks like a gigantic shiny black bumblebee hovering outside the screen.A faint hubbub outside my upstairs windows, like conversation verging on an argument.Clues that it’s carpenter bee nesting season appear every spring. ![]() The buzz has gone out that my house is a happening place for carpenter bees. They recognize high-quality food and habitat. By i.am.georgia.harris on Septemin Landscape Challenges, Pest Management By Karen Bussolini This article was first posted on January 7, 2020, on the Karen Bussolini Garden Arts – Nurturing Gardens and Gardeners blog and is reprinted with the permission of the author.īees are smart.
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