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Hi, I've been having a problem with a small dark colored bee a little smaller than a honey bee. They are getting under my siding where it meets the foundation. I tried wasp stopper on them and spraying where they go in which had no effect that I could see. I sprayed liquid sevin and powdered sevin which didn't do anything either. Any ideas before I call an exterminator? Thanks Mike
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I got the same thought it was honeybees
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Post a clear pic of one. May be perfectly harmless Mason bees... Or might be Carpenter bees. Pic will help
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Boric acid (roach pruf) or just regular borax like they sell for laundry detergent booster. Ideally if you can use some kind of air puffer to blow it into the hole a bit. When they crawl through it, they'll carry it to the nest. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LRMN9Z...si&th=1&psc=1&language=en_US
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It's not illegal, yet.
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OP,
longarm just might know what he's talking about.
Not sure about PA, but here in Cali they say there's over 1600 bee species. How many of them are bad for siding? Easier to tell if you get a picture of them.
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Leaf cutter bees are pricks.
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We need all the pollinators we can get. Take it easy with all insecticides, know what you are trying to eliminate, before you start the chemicals..
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Leaf cutter bees are pricks. They like my wife's lilacs, sometimes the honeysuckle, and even my little struggling apple trees. Probably spread the damn fire blight to other plants. grump grump grump
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It look like a itty bitty black wasp?
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We need all the pollinators we can get. Take it easy with all insecticides, know what you are trying to eliminate, before you start the chemicals.. This^^^^^
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We need all the pollinators we can get. Take it easy with all insecticides, know what you are trying to eliminate, before you start the chemicals.. This^^^^^ +2 My mason bee condo today. About 4500 cells ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/pXt2SfWR/20240417-103612.jpg)
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How many of those holes do they fill?
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Over 80%
The two containers dangling from the lid are filled with washed cocoons, which are hatching out now. They should start filling those holes pretty soon after collecting pollen
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Dang,
you keep the cocoons over winter?
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All these boards will be going next spring to California almonds
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We need all the pollinators we can get. Take it easy with all insecticides, know what you are trying to eliminate, before you start the chemicals.. This^^^^^ LOL just got done spraying 25 gals of glyphosphate and 2-4,D Will chase it down in 2 hours with some Torus.
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Stick a bic lighter up under one of them bag worm coccoons lol
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All these boards will be going next spring to California almonds Aha!
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