CARPENTER BEES
NO, I won’t call an exterminator. It’s my WAR ❗
They are destroying my 8×10 wooden shed.
SPENT $100+ over several years on poison sprays but they come back in months or by the next spring.
I read about caulking their holes but can’t get to them and don’t want to be around all that poisonous spray.
Tried a pump up water gun but not accurate or powerful enough.
Air alone from my Condor doesn’t work and I don’t want to shoot holes in the shed. Also, neighbors to close here in a manufactured mobile home park.
Could a cheap paintball gun shoot something like plastic BBs or a wad of sand ❓
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I use a badmitten racket and nail them mid-air as they are hovering!
i like to just leave 1 wing and watch the ensuing airshow… 😆 😆 😆
not as fun, tho. im gonna try to design a shotshell for a rifled .25 barrel…
I worked in a service station as a kid and we passed the time blasting bugs with shop chemicals…Those were the good old days
WD40 or starting fluid and a lighter is fun too 😈
We used to cut strips of bicycle inner tube and use them kind of like a rubber band whip. Stretch it and try to have the business end “snap” the fly or wasp or whatever in two. But they had to land. We would bait the flies with something sweet like jelly. Yellow jackets would come to it too but you’d better be a good shot ’cause they don’t mess around. Pretty fun.
We would also catch June bugs, attach a thread to their back legs and fly them like a kite.
And finally, we would catch horse flies and carefully remove their back legs so they could not jump in the air to take off. Then place them on a smooth surface and they would take off like an airplane.
This was life as a kid before video games. 😎
not as fun, tho. im gonna try to design a shotshell for a rifled .25 barrel…
I worked in a service station as a kid and we passed the time blasting bugs with shop chemicals…Those were the good old days
WD40 or starting fluid and a lighter is fun too 😈
this aint the methchemist.org forum… 😛
How about a water gun with ammonia? 😆
Just had a C Bee buzz my face
Had my airsoft AK47 all charged up
the damned bee b lined
my Jeep, could not open up on it
did not
want to chip paint
Full auto the POS jamed on me :((((
China sucks
SAW
wasp spray?
liberty, I likey!
😯 😯 😈
and a match !! 😆
brake cleaner or starting fluid drops em mid-flight.
not as fun, tho. im gonna try to design a shotshell for a rifled .25 barrel…
I too cover-up when I spray & have plenty of the knock-down stuff. The nests are small & these wasps aren’t particularly aggressive . . . usually there’s only one or twoo on the open-cell nest. I’m interested in the SC for the residual effect. Thanks for the advice, tho; I appreciate that. Then I’ll eliminate the driveway ants. Some of those little buggers are so small you can hardly see them, but they sure can mine dirt.
If you’re needing some good “knock down” spray, befriend someone that works for your local electric utility. We have some stuff down here that will do the deal in flight. I also treat the corners under my deck at home with it in the spring and nothing builds a nest there that year. But it’s not available for sale to the public. It’s also non-conductive so you can spray it around your electrical gear.
Keep in mind that Suspend SC is usually not a really fast knockdown spray. It’s made to last longer vs. quick kill. So I’d avoid getting any big hornet nests angry. Best to have a fast getaway or use the jet sprays. For carpenter bees, they’ll rarely attack you. Clumsy as heck. The males have white/pale yellow “faces”/foreheads and can’t sting. They’re the ones that often hover in your face. We make a sport of batting them with a piece of wood.
My boss used Suspend to spray the floors and carpets of an unoccupied house to get rid of an insanely bad flea problem. Worked great.
As with any pesticide spray, you should wear protection, especially if you’re spraying upwards, under eaves and overhead. I usually spray at least 30 gallons of Suspend every year, at different sites, mostly to kill stink bugs before they get in the buildings. A cheap Tyvek suit, respirator and goggles are necessary so I’m not pickled in the stuff. Since I’m usually using a backpack sprayer on an extension ladder, it’s not like I can dodge the drift! You definitely don’t want to get it in your eyes or on your skin. I got a full-face 3M respirator, since I spray so often. Those don’t fog up and are worth the high price if you do a lot of spraying. Nothing like being “suited up” and having the sun come up on a warm day! Not only do you get soaked in sweat, rubber boots start filling up with it…grim.
Funny as hell: I was the “organic” type when I left home. Bunch of bullshit cures for bugs; most of the hype was lies back in the 70s-80s. My dad laughs like hell when he hears me now; I spend a good part of my waking hours spraying chemicals to control a crap load of different pests. Too bad they took some of the mammal killers off the market-could use a good vole killer out here. Well, I guess #6 shot, Nitro-Magnum, 12 gauge is a good spray!
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DO NOT I repeat DO NOT use pepper spray, and NO you can’t ask me why! 😉