CARPENTER BEE TRAPS, How to make them and How they work, ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW
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- Опубликовано: 12 апр 2021
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Just listening to this man reminds me of the older fellas I should’ve listened more to growing up😂 great video and thank you Sir
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing that my friend.
If only the internet was full of useful info like this 👍
Glad it was helpful my friend. Thanks for the comment.
Enjoyed this I’ve always used a badminton racket trying to get rid of these things, never thought of trapping them. Will be making one asap thanks for the vid my friend
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend.
I really appreciate you making this video. I am just another old Tennessee boy that really enjoys your advice
I appreciate that! Hope it helps you friend. It did me.
I had to laugh when I saw you with a tennis racket. I saw myself swatting that racket myself. I did have a blast many a day playing swat the bee. Now, I'll be one step ahead this year, using this trap invention. Thanks for the tip. Your friend, Louise
Yes, yes, yes, I agree with using the glass jars!
They work! Just got to cover all existing holes so the bees go after your traps. I bought the first online for$35 as a sample and it caught 10 in a few days. That convinced me. Built a bunch more for $3 a piece. If you have access to some wood logs and a chain saw all you need to buy is an eye hook, a little chain and a canning jar+lid for each. Plastic bottles may work but I prefer jars.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing that my friend.
Had to rewatch this video since I just won the traps in you GAW! Very cool! I was reading that Strand’s Carpenter Bees are only found in Texas and that we mainly have Black Carpenter Bees. So many different varieties of them though! Have a good day!~ Char
Hope this helps out around the home my friend. Enjoy.
Thanks for the tips!!
Happy to help my friend. Get ready for next spring. Plan on it.
Wow I just made a few today. Thanks for sharing.
You’re welcome 😊
Great video and very well explained! Thanks!!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for entering my friend. God Bless
I’ll try this again!!
Thanks Donnie, for this awesome information!
Your very welcome my friend.
What an awesome video Mr Laws! I live in an apartment complex so I don’t worry about the bees boring holes etc. But these traps are sheer genius! Blessings always! ❤️✝️
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this my friend. Thank you.
Thank you for posting this! I followed your instructions and made six of these trap and hung them around my house today. The only thing I did different is that I glued two 2x4’s together to make a 4x4 to save a little money. Great video. Thank you!
Awesome my friend. I hope it's not to late getting them out. Time will tell my friend.
Thanks you for your information! I'm making my own right now. I live in East TN too! TN❤️
Awesome friend. You are so welcome!
Donnie ole boy, you are a wealth of very useful knowledge! Thanks!
WOW Thanks so much my friend.
I have been looking for these, thank you so much for sharing!
You are so welcome! They do work, but you have to get them up before they start flying around in March.
Fantastic hack!! Thank you!!
Your very welcome my friend.
Well done Donnie, such a clever and affective design. A few years back, I used to make similar items, nesting boxes, butterfly boxes, bird feeders, bat boxes, owl boxes, etc. Started off doing for my research projects as a way to save money, later I started doing as a side job to earn money to help pay for some of my search projects. If your research isn't tied to global warming/climate change, it very hard to get funding and grants these days. So, I had to help myself. Nice work my friend, I miss doing my woodworking. All my best my friend...
Thanks my friend.
02:30 - Excellent. Thank you.
5.29.2022
North Central Florida
Awesome! Thanks for sharing that my friend.
Great info from a wise DIYer
Thank you friend.
Come spring I will have several of these around. Might even branch out and sell a few.
Great info buddy.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.
They work amazing
Thank you friend.
Thank You!!
You're welcome! Hope it helped out.
Nice! Well done Donnie....
Thanks for sharing..!!
Your very welcome my friend.
That's the way I've been making them. They work pretty good.
Awesome my friend. Glad it worked out well for you. I have got over a dozen in the last few weeks. My traps are 2 years old now. I just change the bottles. Thanks for sharing.
Donnie! What a small world. I'm sitting up at the cabin in Suches, Georgia. I search on building a trap and you pop up!
Awesome! my friend.
Enjoyed
great video
thank you for making this. I can't wait to make these for the bees 😅
Thank you friend. They will suprise you.
you are a genius!
Not hardly, But thinks for the comment my friend. Hope this helped you.
You’re a cool dude. Thanks for the great video. Very helpful.
Thank you friend. Your very welcome. God bless you.
They certainly do work, I've made a few recently and while you sit back and watch, it's almost like going fishing, they hover around and around, up and down and some will walk right up the side next to the hole, but finally they will stick there head inside and there's no going back, they're doomed. And these things are eating up my garage, this is the first year I tried to do anything about it, before I just thought they were honey bees flying around....and then I saw all the holes and grooves :-( appreciate your posting this up sir, keep up the good work.
Fishing is a great way to put it. Some viewers think i am trying to trick them or something. Just trying to help them. They have to follow the steps for them to work. Thanks for the comment my friend.
Here in Eastern Ohio the bore bees even chew holes into the standard treated lumber and also the creosoted telephone phones we used to build our pole barn. Doesnt seem to effect them!
We wanted our pole barn stained anyways and so we tried mixing 1 gallon of diesel fuel to 5 gallons of used motor oil ( that we get in 55gal drums from our local service garages ) and then only stained half of the pole barn. So far the bore bees will not touched the stained areas.
Now that we're in our Spring weather again, gotta get back to staining the rest of the pole barn, and looks like we'll try the bee traps in this video
Wish us luck, and GOOD LUCK to you :)
WOW them is some tough bees my friend. Thanks for sharing your ways ot treating them.
I’m from A small town in southwest Virginia and really enjoy your videos about growing up in the mountains.
Glad you like them! Thank you friend.
Donnie, I remember my grandad ( poppie) letting me ride on top of the plow while he plowed behind two mules when I was I a small child. He was a huge 6’3”. I also remember riding on his wooden sled with large rudders maybe 2 X 8s as he hauled hay. It was great fun to feed the chickens, except when the two giant, I thought , guard geese would chase me while trying to peck me and occasionally being successful. I hate geese to this day. I’m 72 years old, moved to Florida and every year miss my old home town more than the previous year, but because of the joy of being one mile away from my 6 and 4 year old grandchildren, I’m stuck here in Florida and am glad to be near them.
@@martinmaddox5315 Awesome story. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Appreciate u sir. Have a 6X6 scrap piece of wood, gonna start making a similar trap as what u have shown. Appreciate you a lot. These bees are destroying trusses in new barn, they must go.
I understand my friend. Thanks for sharing. Your very welcome.
How Clever Mr Donnie 👍😊
Thank you friend.
I just noticed one of these traps in my backyard (new home owner). And also noticed two fresh holes on my deck. Well time to get out the caulk.
Never ending Battle my friend. They are like the Wrens around the house they will never stop.
first video on your channel i've seen, and I liked you 30 seconds in
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much.
I saw some at the flea market last weekend. I may buy a couple because i'm to lazy to make one.
I sale them. Go to link in description under video and check it out.
Good tip
Glad you liked it. Thanks for watching
I make one using a paint stick and raw chicken I attach the raw chicken to the paint stick and then I put it across a container of water with about a quarter to a half an inch of space between the meat and the water and then I put a couple drops of dish soap in the water quite effective
@@notrightjohnnydetectingjun8028 That's a first for me my friend. Never heard of that before. Thanks for sharing
thank you Donnie my wife and I keep score swatting these bas$%s i am making your traps and will get back to comment on how they work. i am confident they will!!!
Good luck my friend.
Donnie as one ole east Tn. boy to another the traps help but didn't stop my problem. I had a real problem with these things on the farm. I built over 80 traps of different designs and different woods. The 4x4 is the best design as far as traps go. Bee Wax will stop em and kill the offspring as they emerge. What is this miracle you say, glad you ask!
This mixture took me some time to get the consistency right but I'm happy with this. Get a 13 oz container of petroleum jelly at the Dollar Store or Walmart ($2.50), get the 8 oz bottle of Permethrin 10% liquid ($10.50 I went to Tractor Supply but most farm stores will have it). Permethrin 10% is used to treat children's head lice and spray on animals to kill flies, it's considered safe for humans. The petroleum jelly mixes easily if you warm the container in a pot of warm water on the stove, it turns into a liquid. Mix 13 ounces of petroleum jelly with 4 ounces of Permethrin 10% pour both ingredients into a 1 quart canning jar and shake well, that's all there is to it. Draw the mixture into a 60 CC / 2 ounce catheter syringe with the long smooth tip ($3.30 at the farm store). You want it thick enough to stick in their holes but thin enough to be used in a syringe. Optional - put a 7" piece of 3/8 OD x 1/4 ID clear vinyl tubing ($3.20 for 10' at Lowes) on the end of the syringe to reach into their holes better. The tubing slides on the syringe easier if you heat it with a hair dryer or heat gun. When it's time to refill the syringe warm the container in warm water on the stove so it can be drawn into the syringe. It doesn't take much to treat a hole, less is more in this case. A 60 CC syringe should treat 150 holes. Imagine a 7/16" diameter Carpenter Bee going down a 1/2" tunnel, all they have to do is get this stuff on em. This will make 17 ounces and the syringe holds 2 ounces so you will have 7 refills. Basically a lifetime supply and you've only used 1/2 of your Permethrin. I like to treat the hole while the bee is inside so early in the morning works well. Try to squirt the mixture about 1/2" - 3/4" inside the hole so it won't prevent the bee from going in if she isn't in there already. If I treat just inside the edge of the hole she didn't want to go in. This targets the female that bores the hole, lays the eggs, and stings. The male doesn't do any of those things. This will kill their offspring as they emerge also. They'll start buzzing, crawl out of the hole, and die on the ground in a few minutes, I had dead bees everywhere. The petroleum jelly protects the Permethrin giving it a longer shelf life to last all season. If you spray Permethrin it would be effective about 14 days before starting to breakdown. For less than the price of one store bought trap you can mix this stuff. This stuff will wax em, thus the name Carpenter Bee Wax. I gave this to a few friends to help me test it, they all loved the stuff. We're going into the third year of using it and they all say the bees are almost nonexistent. You will always have some move in from other places but very few. Treat every hole you can find turning each hole into a trap. I have one barn and three large sheds with no new woodpecker damage because the young larva isn't there. This is 100% true, I don't make a dime off this stuff. I know this was long but I hope it helps someone.
Wow my friend. You have done some research and work on this. Thanks so much for sharing this.
@@donnielaws7020 Donnie I was on the farm today and didn't see a carpenter bee. It's located in SE Tennessee so we have the temperature and humidity for bugs. Bees were extremely bad in 2017 when Dad died and I suddenly became a farmer at 53 years old. I went the trap route at first but that wasn't stopping them and I made over 80 and they were catching. Tip for placing traps- put them in areas that receive the early morning sun and warm first with sun all day. That's where the female wants to lay her eggs. The female has an all black head while the male has a dot on his head. (easier than looking for bee balls lol) Pheromones are important when luring bees to your traps, swat a few with a tennis racket to put in your traps. You can buy bottles of attractant but bees are just as good or better. I tried it on cotton balls but I wasn't impressed. I drilled some holes in jars to help release pheromones but that didn't seem to help either. I'm not a professional exterminator but I had to learn all I could if I wanted to stop em. With the amount of carpenter bees I needed to exterminate pollination could become a problem. I found a local honey bee keeper that needed more room so I fixed him up a place to put several hives. This was a win for both of us, he needed more room, I get free honey which he doesn't have to do but I appreciate it. Once again hope this helps.
@@turdferguson5300 I understand completely my friend. They are in their nest now it's to late for traps in this southern country. Best thing you can do is get ready this winter for next spring. You can climb around and spray WD40 in the nest, But that's about it in this stage of the game. One more season won't matter. Prepare for next SPRING. Plug holes and make traps. I learned the hard way fighting these thing myself for years.
I have made traps for over 9+ years. Put the traps near the holes, plug with caps.
Thanks for the advice my friend. Thanks for sharing.
That's a new trick !
My tennis racket only knocks them down and then I have to step on them. One year I got over 30 of these w/ my racket, and usually about 10 a year, now 5 or 6.
I have replaced 12 ft boards around the barn that fell apart and grumbled in my hand because of these bees.
Thanks for sharing this my friend.
i enjoyed this video more than i should i have lol
Thank you friend.
Here ya go Batman!
So would you put a coat of linseed oil over the outside of the trap to prevent weathering since the inside is still untreated?
No sir .
Does painting or staining wood prevent them? Can you use flex seal to clog up holes? Good Vid thanks
Yes it does my friend, But they will still drill if they have to to build a nesting hole.
@@donnielaws7020 I wonder if you stained it in the fall, and left it outside to weather and offgas in the winter would help. I'd like to stain one with pine tar and tung oil to make the wood last. I'll try it this weekend.
@@matthoward1174 They love the bare wood my friend only. You could try one for a test and see if they will go in it, but I say they won't touch. Just sand them a little before you put them up in the spring to keep them looking good. The fresh wood smell will help draw them. Thanks for the comment.
@@donnielaws7020 Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us Sir ! I will probably make a couple, and mount them in different areas. I'm in the Pine Barrens section of NJ, and we have bees on all sides of the house here, so it makes a pretty good test bed. I enjoy your videos !
@@matthoward1174 Thank you.
Thank You So So So Much.. these Carpenter Bees Are Destroying My Dads House Nd im sick of it. ur Awesome 💯
Sorry to hear that. Hope this helps you, But it is getting late in the year. Thanks for commenting.
What fly swatter is that?
👍😎👍
Thank you Reed for watching.
having a hard time getting cedar- will Douglas fir work?
I think any natural wood will do, but some are better than others.
Yellow jackets seem to love these also. Would it work for catching them?
They could my friend.
Wish I had known this years ago. We bought a “Gorilla” sized (adults could fit this size overhead)…child play yard- spent a fortune; the wood was redwood, and suppose to last a lifetime- well, with in one season wood bees got in it, and we didn’t know it- ruined the safety of it. 😢 gave it away for scrap wood. Thanks so much for teaching this!!
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend. Your very welcome.
Im in mid Tenn and just made few to protect my cabin.
Hope that helps you my friend.
Interesting. I got a. log house. Or the front is log. And wood porch. I,used. A sealer that they don't like. But they eat my barn up
I use a shop vac!
Do I need to put some sort of lure inside the jar?
No, a carpenter bee if you can dead or alive so they attract more. Biggest thing is take away their old holes. Thanks for sharing this my friend.
We have the GIANT all black ones and they are nasty suckers!! They chewed up my brand new Teak patio set 😭 definitely getting myself some of these traps!
I haven't seen any of those my friend. At that size they could really do so damage. Thanks for commenting.
Thats racists !!!
Just kidding.
BTW, you are crazy cute .
Very very beautiful lady
No disrespect meant
@@donnielaws7020 they are about the size of ping pong balls 😬 and they make a deeper buzzing sound. They usually appear out of nowhere and scare the crap out of me lol
@@dewalt4594 😂
@@laurachristensen3201 😁
You look familiar. Are you a lawyer in burnsville nc? Nice video. Is there something like this for yellow jackets?
Sorry my friend. Afraid not. Not me.
@@donnielaws7020 ok thanks
Is there something like this for yellow jackets?
Would a pressure treated 4x4 work?
Normally they don't like pressure treated wood, but they will use it.
Donnie, the kids have a field day with wiffle ball bats. I've used bb guns myself..we put up traps too
Thanks for sharing this my friend.
i had a lot of bees, made these traps, 2 months later none in traps, however the traps did their job.
unexplainably all the bees disappeared when i hung the traps up. i am puzzled but happy.
That's strange! Thanks for sharing that my friend.
I bought some of these last summer from someone who made them homemade, and it just never worked for me!! Never caught one, and I even killed one and put it in there like the tips say to do.
It seems like the holes in mine had lots of splintered wood, I think the bees would have to clear it out to get through but I thought that wouldn't stop them. Maybe I have lazy bees? Should I clear the holes out more or maybe just try hanging in a different spot?
Sorry to hear that Jamie. Could be a number of things why they are not working. 1. Is the traps you have do they have angled 45 holes or just straight 90 degrees in the side. 2. Have you stopped up all the old holes the Bees where using. 3. Are you hanging them around the eves or wood. Yes i would clean out holes with a rat tail file or sand paper. I explained all in the videos step by step. Mine are home made too my friend. They really do work. Don't give up they do work. Please keep at it. If you want some like in the video E-Mail denane44@gmail.com.
Came here from Post10 - (he unclogs storm drains)
Welcome.
Great video. I have a hard time hearing over the music. Thank you great idea im going to make a few
Sorry about that. I tried to get it low. Thanks for the comment.
@@donnielaws7020 please dont be sorry. I appreciate the video. I have the carpenter bees all over my mothers house. I just figured i let you know
I’ve found that giving them spots to nest and treating your wood will solve the problem. They help pollinate the plants so I feel like killing them isn’t ideal.
Thanks for sharing this my friend.
Actually carpenter bees are not considered pollinators. So no worries there.
@@renalshomlmes338 they absolutely are pollinators, they just don't produce honey, I am not sure where you got that information.
Is there a wood colored caulk?
Not sure my friend.
Great video …got a big ole box of jars with lids from yard sale and 5 4x4 long post all for 15 bucks .. I’m wondering does it matter if it’s treated wood or not ? Thanks for the plastic jar tip also
The pawpaw everyone needs. Listen up kids. Old timers don't get that way being dumb.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you.
nice idea, but I don't want to trap them, I want them around because carpenter bees kill wasps .. and I would rather have the carpenter bees than the wasps. I want to build some homes for some carpenter bees to keep the wasps away from my pool and spa. We used to have carpenter bees with our old deck railing, and when they were around we didn't have a wasp problem. Now that we don't have carpenter bees we have a bad wasp problem.
Thanks for sharing this my friend.
The wasp is your friend. Carpenter bees are destructive.
Can I feed the dead bees to my chickens? Please go easy on me if that’s a dumb question! I’m pretty new at this stuff. 🤷♀️
I'm not really sure my friend. Never been ask that before Thanks for sharing.
The only people that get disappointed in the traps don't realize that this is at least a two year process, you have to catch the ones that hatch out the 2nd year. Also like you pointed out, you also have to plug the holes and it's best to spray in an insecticide , put still wool in, then cover with putty or caulk.
Well said my friend. It takes a lot of time and work, but it does pay off. Thanks for sharing that my friend.
My carpenter bee drilled his hole 4 yrs ago and I was able to get a artist brush and marked him a red spot his wing. He returns every May to the same hole for 3 weeks then leaves
Wow, That proves they come back to the same old holes. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Do you sell them?
I'm sorry I don't my friend. You can make them yourself. Thanks for sharing.
Do these bees have any natural predators?
I think Hornets my friend.
Cannot figure out why I am not catching any was told to use sugar water
Never heard of that my friend.
Meanwhile down on the ranch, those Duke boys are up to no good again...
I've had mine for several years and never got more than one carpenter bee stuck in it. I hang it on my shed from spring to fall.
Sorry to hear that. I hope you stopped all their old holes up first. Thanks for sharing that my friend.
It's a good idea to leave a bee or two in the trap. They release a pheromone which attracts more of them. good luck, and don't give up.
They fly right past those traps and go for my log cabin that has 5 coats of stain😂
Thanks for sharing my friend.
If only my mother-in-law would climb in that hole...
I have one of these traps and they were great. The only problem is I feel so guilty for letting them suffer and die 😥
I understand that my friend. Thanks for sharing.
If they hover and move side to side...they're not bumblebees!
Thanks for sharing my friend.
I was trying a lot of thing on the bees , year after year same results , Here's the tip ~ l put up a Bird Feeder not for the Bees jest to watch the Birds
Well the Bees are now , Gone missing Incognito
Mother Nature
Ant that crazy. Nature is sometimes strange. Thanks for the comment my friend.
Excellent solution!
I understand that if they are doing damages in your home you treat those to get them out; but why bait the to kill them? They are super pollinators, more so than honeybees, they need to be protected not killed. 80% of everything we eat is touch by bees, we need them, and your trees and plants too. Hanging bird feeder serve many purposes, I applaud you, thank you.
question would it be easier to treat the house and put nest for them so that nature remains in balance. it easy for us to kill everything and so much harder to persevere life. I guess we are no different from our forefathers
You could my friend. Your choice.
I am hard of hearing, a very good video, but would be a hell of a lot better without annoying music.
Thanks for sharing this my friend.
Leave dead bees in them will attract more
They sure will my friend. Best leave them there if possible.
What you need to know is that the traps do not work. Don't waste your money.
I've resorted to using an old tennis racket.
That's one sure way. Thanks for commenting. Again what money making your own out of anything wood, Maybe your time. Sorry they don't work for you my friend. I have explained them and showed them every way I know how. There are steps you have to do for them to work. What people don't understand is You can't just hang them up in May and expect to catch them. It's to late. I have done emptied my bottles once already and no one still believes me. All I can do. Just trying to help some one with the same problem. I'm not selling nothing.
Traps do work, but they need to be placed properly. Slight adjustments in location is needed with all bee traps. That is the most common problem.
Make a fake wasp nest out of a stuffed paper bag. Bees will stay away and no need to kill them.
I have heard that too my friend. Thanks for the ideal.
“How to make them, how they work, everything you need to know” and no instructions on how to make them.
Refer to video links on everything you need my friend.
not FAIR TO BEES!
Only Carpenter bees, No other.
They don’t trap honey bees, just the bad ones that eat your wood
Not fair to carpenter bees that destroy your porch or deck.
you have not shown evidence that the carpenter bees actually fly in it and get trapped. All you showed were: a still picture of what looks like a carpenter bee going into the trap ( i can photoshop something better than that) and a bunch of dead ones with one that looks like it just got trapped (i've stunned these with my swatter and put them in buckets with water). Perhaps it'd be more convincing to people if you showed actual evidence (like a video) that it works rather than to allege that it works because you say or know so.
I could place a camera at a trap 24-7 would that help. I've showed Live bees in trap for proof. Do you think i put them in there. Just trying to help someone out with the same problems i been through. What's the deal here do you think i am lying. I am not getting any thing out of all this work except maybe some views. Please do your own research for your own conclusion. Don't take my word for it. Go watch some of the other 1000 Carpenter videos on you tube if they are any better. Thanks for watching.
The traps REALLY WORK. Once you get one bee in there they release a scent that attracts MORE bees! You can also buy carpenter bee attractant to lure them in.
@@Tommyr Thanks for sharing Tommy.
Your comment reveals some very odd ways of thinking on your part.
@@valerie3955 Please explain.
Was going to go to a thrift shop to buy some mason jars but i guess ill clean out the plastic peanut butter jars and use those. thanks :)
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend.