[Dieselwrencher]

Originally Posted by special-K

These I kept simple. I thought about painting them up like people do bird houses. I think just simple is good enough


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.

Very neat. I need to make some of these. I never saw these until this year. My in laws have a very nice wood swing set they got for the grand kids to play on. One of my sons heard a buzzing sound and it was coming from 2 1/2" holes in the legs. I exterminated them but none of us knew what they were. After some net searching they were for sure carpenter bees. They definitely are destructive and need to go.

On your trap, do you just drill one hole through the bottom for them to drop down into the jar?