Carpenter bee control!

My dad used the .22 shells. It was very entertaining watching him run around the yard shooting at them. The ammunition cost per bee proved to be too much for him. Now he has the traps out

They were all over my deck last year. Killed quite a few by spraying them with permethrin. Hoping to not have the same issue this year, but may have to look into some traps.

Pellet gun worked good enough. They will hover often and that is when you catch them with a .177 wadcutter. Provided it is a safe direction to shoot.

They have been working on the top window openings of my box blind the past two years. I am going to coat the wood with spray vehicle undercoating to see if that stops them from bothering the blind.

Yep!
I’ve been doing the same for years.
Neighbors think it is hilarious, but ya gotta do what ya gotta do!
One year I thought it would be a good idea to get the grandsons involved.
Worked out great until one of them wacked the other upside the head!

When I was a kid, we go after them with the big fat red Wiffle ball bats.

I discovered I had a problem with them at my previous house, but it was too late. They already had holes bored in my deck railing so I just waited until I could hear them buzzing around in there and then filled the holes full of caulk.

I made 2 traps that barely worked.

A friend made a nice one and it works great.

I always enjoy a 6 pack and a tennis racket when were out at the cabin. Hours of entertainment. I even get my wife and daughters involved. although they aren't as good as the champ.

The key is don't swing for the fences, unless you want to have a sore arm and you won't be able to scratch the top of your head. Rookie mistake I made.

I use that company online to buy bug spray. I bought a powered mister from Home depot last year and need some lightweight water consistency type liquid insecticide to kill mosquitoes.  I wanted to mist around the back yard and keep the mosquito population down.  I didn't a chance to use it last year as it got cold outside before I could get the chemicals. The parathyrin Chemical cost me nearly $100.  And I can only use so much at a time as the container in the sprayer is not that big. 1/2 gallon and it's full. 

I gave them my email address and now I get spammed by them nearly every day.  I hate it when a company sends that much advertisement to my email address. 

I noticed that the link also says that it works on those brown marmorated stink bugs. We have them by the hundreds in our house.  I kill one or two almost every day at first and not I kill one about every week.  I don't know where they hide inside the house but when they get where I can see them I get a tissue and then catch them in the tissue, squeeze them to death and either throw the tissue outside or flush it down the toilet. I hate them stick bugs. The came from East Asia and are not in the USA. And nothing will eat them as they stick too bad. I read that if you squish them they will put off a pheromone that will attract other stick bugs. Maybe that is why I have so many in our house.

I realize that as an apiarist you are more conscious about chemicals that will kill bees, but as a homeowner that doesn't have a lot of time on his hands I need something to kill unwanted insects when I am not around.

I feel that by spraying this on the areas that are NOT attractive to honeybees I am not hurting the bee population in any way and that I am protecting my house and property at the same time.

If I could find a solution to the problem that is completely harmless to non-target insects, AND would work when I'm not around just as good as the pyrethroid insecticide that is in Suspend Polyzone, I would.

Waynes, do you have any suggestions on something that meets those criteria?