If Carpenter Bees are boring holes in the side of your house then you need a Carpenter Bee Trap....or six!
We were hampered by Carpenter Bees for years before I started toying with this idea and after several variations I've got this little house down to a science.
The walls and holes are cut at such angles that once the bee enters the chamber the only light it can see is the hole at the bottom and apparently he thinks that is his way out. Once he is in the bottle he just bounces off the clear plastic until he is tired and gives up.
The bottom piece of wood is drilled and modified by oblonging the hole just enough to recieve the threads of any 16-20 ounce pop bottle . Once the bottle starts getting full of bees, just screw the cap back on, discard and screw another bottle in the hole.
For optimum effectiveness we recommend having one of these traps on each corner of your house with an extra one in the middle of any span over 30 feet. Carpenter Bees tend to favor the sunny side of the house, so it is also a good practice to double up on the Southeastern corner of your house or anywhere you see an excess of drilling or other bee activity.
It is all natural and very effective!
Construction:
These little traps are designed purely for the purpose of trapping bees without consideration for their outward appearance, charm is the form of function. Constructed entirely of rough cut white pine from our local sawmill, we take the lumber as it comes and do not forego the knots and so on. If it is in the wood we put it in the trap...the bees don't seem to mind.
We oblong a one inch hole in the bottom of each trap and test the fit it with the threads taken from a Dasani water bottle. Please be aware that the threads of all plastic bottles are not the same.
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