Pest Inspection CT for Carpenter Bees: Carpenter Bees may look like the humble bumble bee but their burrowing habit to protect young offspring can create havoc with a wood structure like your home.
Even though their native nest of choice would be an old tree, carpenter bees can be serious wood destroying insects if they choose your home to build their nest galleries. The tunnels created by this wood boring bee is so perfectly round it appears to have been drilled by a tool. Carpenter bees seem to prefer softwoods like cedar, redwood and clear pines used in window trim, screens, soffits and fascia boards, and decks.
These bees do not eat wood like a termite does but they use their galleries to raise their young. Each larva is provisioned with a ball of pollen and then sealed into a single cell until it completes its development the following spring.
Carpenter bees can be controlled by applying a registered insecticide to the gallery opening. If only one or two gallery openings are involved then an aerosol Bee and Wasp spray should be enough to kill off the bees. If large areas are affected then a persistent insecticide applied by a pest control professional can be used to treat the entire area. Painting or otherwise sealing the wood is reported to discourage the bees from chewing their holes.
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