The issue with carpenter bees is that they like to build nests in dry wood, and if your house is made of wood, it’s attractive to female bees looking for a place to start a nest. Once the female ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) -While honey bees nest in trees and bumble bees nest in the ground, carpenter bees nest in wood. Most carpenter bees spend their time around dead wood.

“The carpenter bee is a solitary insect that makes nests in wood cavities,” says Daniel Baldwin, a board-certified entomologist at Hawx Pest Control. Bumblebees, on the other hand, are a ...

Carpenter bees are named so because they drill into wood to build their nests. While they do not feast on the wood in the same way that termites do, they can still cause a great deal of damage ...

If you’ve discovered that carpenter bees have made themselves at home in your home, you may want to encourage them to nest elsewhere—without harming them, and, in turn, the local ecosystem.

Carpenter bee nests are easily distinguished from those of other wood-boring insects. Nest entrances are almost perfectly round and about one-half inch in diameter.

Carpenter bees cause damage to untreated wood by making holes where they live and nest.Use insecticides, traps, essential oils, and wood replacement to keep these pests at bay.Plugging holes can ...

Carpenter bees use their powerful jaws to burrow into wood, leaving "siding, sheds, garages, playsets and wooden patio furniture scattered with ugly holes," according to AAI Pest Control in Modesto.

Carpenter bees are good pollinators, and naturally nest in dead trees and wood piles. However, they live in close proximity to humans and can cause extensive damage to wood structures.

Carpenter bees are buzzing busily this time of year in North Carolina, coming out of their nests to mate and pollinate — and drill holes in our porches and decks to make next year’s habitat ...

Typically, humans only come across male carpenter bees, which do not have stingers. Female carpenter bees spend most of their time in their nest with the eggs. “Front porch entrances have big ...