How To Find A Carpenter Bee Nest

Like all bees carpenter bees subsist off nectar and pollen.

How to find a carpenter bee nest. Carpenter bees are some of the commonest bees in the US. Instead these bees bore tunnels in wood into which to deposit their eggs. Six to eight of these chambers are created at a time so the queen can lay an egg in each one.

Ideal nesting sites are near to. Identifying the nest Carpenter bee nests have a very distinctive appearance that makes them fortunately easy to identify on sight. If the nest is recent you may also see a little pile of sawdust directly under the hole.

Carpenter bees create winding segmented tunnels through the wood that they designate to be their nest. Specifically soft weathered and unpainted wood are perfect environments for carpenter bee. Youll typically find a carpenter bee nest in old wood in the yard in a dead tree or in an old fence post or on a piece of trim.

How to Identify Nests. As mentioned above carpenter bees prefer wood that is soft and untreated. Carpenter bees have evolved the ability to cut through solid wood with their mandibles in order to make a nest and where they will raise their brood in little cells separated by wood shaving.

Carpenter Bees Xylocopa proxylocopa like the handsome carpenter bee shown at the top of this page nest by burrowing into hard woody material such as dead trees and in suburban areas into the edges or occasionally surfaces of wood on buildings typically wood. The tunnels can end up being anywhere from four to six inches in length. If you see male carpenter bees you know how to identify them hovering around some wooden structure check the ground there or any other horizontal surface beneath that place.

Standing as far away as possible point the spray at the nest and saturate the nest with spray. You can find carpenter bee nests in wooden decks fence posts or picnic tables. Geographically carpenter bees can be found across the Southern United States all the way up north of New York.