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You like having your property destroyed?
No, of course not. I've put out traps for them before. Then we're really bad when I first moved into this house and I killed a lot the first two years I lived here. I rarely see them now but I still see them occasionally. If their numbers get crazy again I'll put traps out again. For better or worse they're the most common solitary bee in my area. I probably see at least 10x as many carpenter bees as bumble bees. I know because I'm always looking for those fuzzy butts lol.
Fair enough, seeing an occasional one is fine. I moved into a house with an infestation a while back, there were hundreds of them living in the porch rafters. There were dozens of them swarming the porch at any given time during the day.
Traps did nothing for me. I used liquid nails and filled in their holes at night while they were sleeping. 10% would chew their way back out, so I repeated until they were gone.
I don't mind bees in general, but I have a distaste for carpenter bees after that experience.
That's fair! The only traps I had success with were this type which I got from Lowe's. https://beesnthings.com/collections/carpenter-bee-trap the ones with the jars weren't as attractive.
And yes, I definitely experienced much frustration those first few years. I also plugged some holes only to find they are through it lmao.