These I kept simple. I thought about painting them up like people do bird houses. I think just simple is good enough
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Originally Posted by BLAZERMAN
That's a bunch of traps! Do you sell them or do you have a bee problem? My old neighbor down the road had carpenter bees in his porch rafters, they made the nicest holes all the way thru. I told him I needed a full set of them from 1/4" to 1/2"....he didn't think that was too funny. They did a lot of damage in a short amount of time.
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That's a dozen I made for a friend. I guess if you have the bees you have a problem and I have them. I made 6 up a few years ago, out of a 12-pack of jars. Last year I couldn't find the other 6 to finish up. But the 6 got me 36 bees last year. So far 26 this year. I had a lot of 4x4 cut-offs so I bought four dozen jars to make up, either sell or give friends. Last year I made up a bunch of the wood part but never drilled the holes. Yesterday I painted lids, so now I need to drill holes and put them together. I figure the lids will rust, so I used up left over paint. I just built a wheelchair ramp and have enough 4x4 chunks to make another 4 dozen.