Carpenter Bees In My Cedar Siding

Bees inside my home.

Carpenter bees in my cedar siding.

Carpenter bees known in latin name as xylocopa and ceratina. Thank you for your time. Instead they burrow into soft woods such as the siding of a house to live in and lay larvae. It sounds like this might be happening at your house.

Empty dish soap bottle. The female carpenter bee is the one who makes the hole by chewing through the wood. There are carpenter bee holes in the cedar swing the trees and any other exposed wood even painted stained. Carpenter bees seem to like to enter wood from the bottom which seems to be what you show.

When carpenter bees emerge in spring and again in fall fill holes with a bit of steel wool a wad of aluminum foil a dowel and wood glue or even caulk. Common places for bees to hide and build nests include overhangs cracks window frames shutters door frames and underneath the siding. Your bee problem is possibly a cause of old warping and rotting siding. A contractor said that he had a cedar sided home and had to take the siding off and replace with brick.

While ceratina is the small carpenter bees. Xylocopa refers to large carpenter bees the most common one. Gather the right tools. These can all be used to fill the holes.

They are solitary bees and are not part of a larger hive community. You might end up seeing actually you would hear them more likely some woodpeckers too. Cork dowels latex wood filler and caulk. We have tried filling the holes with caulk silicone and the bees rebuilt their hole.

After filling the holes completely paint over them. Fence with carpenter bees. The carpenter bee is so called because of where it chooses to make it s home. How to deal with carpenter bees.

Might need to call a pest control outfit. If you read through our carpenter bee control article you ll learn these bees will readily crawl under siding and facia boards to drill nests which will then effectively be hidden and secure. Now is the time to fix that problem by replacing your siding with brand new virgin vinyl siding that can withstand the test of time. If the bees are already at work on your home.

You need to kill the bees and eggs. During summer a top priority of most homeowners is to eliminate bees from the yard and property. Repairing carpenter bee damage is pretty simple.