How to get rid of June or "wood bees"?

Toni
by Toni
  3 answers
  • Pg Pg on Nov 11, 2018

    I only had one carpenter bee one year, drilling a hole in the hand rail on our deck. I sprayed insecticide foam in the hole and suffocated it. No more came around. I may just have been fortunate, but...

  • Peggy L Burnette Peggy L Burnette on Nov 11, 2018
    Hi Toni, I have tried this and it works on those pesky critters. Take a brown paper bag, fill it with plastic groceries bags and hang them outside where the nasty wood bees are. They think it is hornets nest and leave. They were eating our barn up and they left. Good luck
  • We usually find the hole they've created and fill it. Sometimes we will spray an insect killer of some kind inside first. Hope this helps!