Hunting carpenter bees - good fun!

and how do you know you are shooting at carpenter bees and not bumblebees?

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If you are familiar AT ALL with bees, it's easy to tell the difference. Carpenter bees are shiny and nearly all black, no stripes. BB's are fuzzy with yellow stripes. Carpenters dive bomb you and behave unlike any BB I've ever seen.

Why you, you, you bee butcher!!!

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You folks seem to have much calmer or nicer bees back east .
In Ks carpenter (aka woodbees) are vicious get withing 10 ft of one of their holes and they with bite and sting the daylights out of anything or any one .
I have witnessed sting both sparrows and rens to death.

Now I confess Ive never tried a 22 with rat shot but we have used pellet guns on then before . I prefer the flame thrower though.
or catch them going in their hole and fill it with spray foam .

I dont have much love lost for woodbees or bumble bees Ive been stung by far too many, last fall bumble bees got me 17 times in a few seconds and kept attacking my mower for well over an hour.
around here it seems they have allied with the yellow jackets so your end up battling heavy bombers (the wood or bumble bees) and the fighters (yellow jackets)

shootem ,Flamem glue their wings together .

Or if you have a love for the flying beasts feel free to relocate them for my barn and sheds my eldest is alergic to stings

I net 'em with a kid's butterfly net and stomp the buzz out of them.

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A can of starter spray and a lighter. Works great on wasp nests also.

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Shouldn't go about shooting bambi and thumper's friends even it they are drilling holes in your house.

I use a hockey stick which improves hand eye coordination and BTW, bats feed at dusk after the bees have put their jammies on.

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i just pictured the cute lil bees in their winnie the pooh jammies and bunny slippers tucked into their wee lil beds...
and you bad elmer fudd types want to blast the poor dears.... shame on you

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I dont use a .22 or a tennis racket but I like to put the water hose on high stream water and shoot them down with the stream of water!! When they get heavy and wet they cant fly and they fall down. They probably recover once they dry out, but I dont stick around that long!!!

Alice in virginia

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Call congress and the other dem weinnies, she's waterboarding bees. Have a hearing, raise her taxes. Sensitivity training. Beephobic.

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Do you think if you crazy glued them to a hook on ultra light tackle they's buzz around on the surface of the water? I bet they'd drive the fish crazy.

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LOL, I am an avid organic gardener, and I have carpenter bees. I have NEVER seen the bees in my vegetable garden. We have cedar siding on our house. Soon we will be replacing the wood siding soley because of the damage done by the carpenter bees. Nope, I do not think kindly of those boring insects.

But it is my understanding that the ones I swat with the tennis racket, are males, and not the ones I should be killing. The females who are boring on my house siding, are in the wood laying eggs. Oh well, I still get satisfaction swating the bombers.

The damage the bees have done to our house is too extensive to think about swabbing with some paint. Besides the siding is natural, with no paint, and some of the damage is up under the eaves, on the three story house. Believe me, I researched an organic method of dealing with these creatures and the bees have won.

One natural approach that has had some effect is the woodpeckers have found the female bees in the wood house siding. Daily we have woodpeckers drilling on our house. Which causes even more damage to the siding. Sigh.

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I don't care if they do pollinate stuff. I like killing them. And I will cheerfully murder anything that wants to eat my house.

Bumble bees are too erratic to kill unless you get real close, which as I said before, isn't real sporting.

If I were short-sighted, I'd get a scope.

How's that song go: I'm bringing down a baby bumble bee...

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i shoot them with a blow gun. loads of fun.

I bin uzin buckshot. I pritineer kilt two dozin of them rascals fer chewin holes in ma house. Course now I got 87 holes that I put there instead of them

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Is ratshot loud (like a regular 22 lr round) or is it much quieter?

Bat houses? Carpenter bees don't fly at night... and bats do.

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O my goodness... I am laughing so hard and have so many tears in my eyes I can't see!

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