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Carpenter bees
Posted on 5/8/18 at 11:46 am
Posted on 5/8/18 at 11:46 am
How do you swampbillies keep them away from your pirogues?
They’re trying to eat my back porch, but they’re also pollinating my blueberries...so I’d hate to just kill them.
They’re trying to eat my back porch, but they’re also pollinating my blueberries...so I’d hate to just kill them.
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Posted on 5/8/18 at 12:01 pm to Eli Goldfinger
6 pack and a badminton racket around dusk each day for a few weeks.
This post was edited on 5/8/18 at 12:02 pm
Posted on 5/8/18 at 12:02 pm to Eli Goldfinger
Every summer from about 6-10 y/o my old lady neighbor would give me a tennis racket and let me run wild in her backyard (her backyard was the woods and creek so very big), and she would pay me a quarter for the corpse of every carpenter bee I brought back to her. Good times.
Posted on 5/8/18 at 12:10 pm to BowlJackson
Badminton racket works better, they'll slip through tennis rackets wholes sometimes.
Posted on 5/8/18 at 12:16 pm to NATidefan
How bout a pickleball racquet? No holes to slip through at all.
Posted on 5/8/18 at 12:18 pm to Eli Goldfinger
Jesus was a carpenter
Karen was a Carpenter
Nail them to a cross or starve them to death?
Karen was a Carpenter
Nail them to a cross or starve them to death?
Posted on 5/8/18 at 1:28 pm to NATidefan
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Badminton racket works better, they'll slip through tennis rackets wholes sometimes
Bet you believe that with you hole heart.
Posted on 5/8/18 at 4:37 pm to Eli Goldfinger
I used a 1.5" x 2' piece of PVC pipe. It's more challenging than a racket, but it makes a more satisfying sound when you make contact 
Posted on 5/8/18 at 8:34 pm to Eli Goldfinger
I made 3 traps.
Posted on 5/9/18 at 11:33 am to airfernando
Ive had good luck caulking off the holes on my porch and deck then swatting the stragglers.
They can have the fence. I need to rebuild it soon anyway.
They can have the fence. I need to rebuild it soon anyway.
Posted on 5/9/18 at 11:34 am to PurpleandGeauld
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I used a 1.5" x 2' piece of PVC pipe.
Schedule 40 or schedule 80?
Posted on 5/9/18 at 11:50 am to TbirdSpur2010
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Schedule 40 or schedule 80?
The first house I bought was an old house on blocks, and the blocks had sunk down about halfway, so I had it jacked up and put on new blocks. The PVC was used to redo some of the plumbing underneath and I am pretty sure we got 80, but that was back a bit.
Posted on 5/9/18 at 12:08 pm to PurpleandGeauld
Yeah it was probably 80 if that was the application. Was it gray? Although I'm not sure how far back the color coding thing goes...
Sorry, I sell water pipes for a living, so I geek over shite like this at random
Sorry, I sell water pipes for a living, so I geek over shite like this at random
Posted on 5/9/18 at 1:11 pm to TbirdSpur2010
You'd be cooler if your knowledge came from years of building potato guns.
I used to work at a place that made Sharkbite PVC. Chillest job ever. I would just sit in front of a machine all night watching Trailer Park Boys on my phone and once every 15 min pick up a finished coil and set it on a rack behind me. If I was lazy and had no ambition that job would've been perfect
I used to work at a place that made Sharkbite PVC. Chillest job ever. I would just sit in front of a machine all night watching Trailer Park Boys on my phone and once every 15 min pick up a finished coil and set it on a rack behind me. If I was lazy and had no ambition that job would've been perfect
Posted on 5/9/18 at 5:45 pm to Eli Goldfinger
Posted on 5/9/18 at 9:58 pm to NATidefan
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6 pack and a badminton racket around dusk each day for a few weeks.
Nah, wiffle ball bat works better. Don't be a bitch and get the giant red one. Be a champ and go for the skinny yellow.
Posted on 5/14/18 at 12:46 pm to memphisplaya
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Nah, wiffle ball bat works better. Don't be a bitch and get the giant red one. Be a champ and go for the skinny yellow.
I'm telling ya, PVC is for the win. Solid enough to be 1 hit and done. Those bees can come back from a wiffle ball bat.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 11:46 am to Cheese Grits
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Jesus was a carpenter
Karen was a Carpenter
"Grandpa was a carpenter" ~ John Prine
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