I just want the carpenter bees to quit eating our house!
No, they really aren't eating it but our back porch overhang has an open ceiling. Next spring it is having fascia installed on it but the carpenter bees LOVE the pine 2x8 beams that make up the roof. That in itself isn't all that bad..bad enough but I can deal with them, mix some wood filler with a bit of seven liquid and spackle it into the holes. But last winter we discovered that eh local woodpeckers declared the old nests their personal all you can eat buffet. Again, not so bad except for the fact that they tore the begeebers out of the 2X8s in their quests for larvae.
This year I got up close and personal with the bees. I know they are wonderful pollinators and we need them. I adore honey bees. I thank each and every one of them that pollinates the blossoms on our fruit trees and berry arbor, but those carpenter bees have just ticked off the wrong red head. My husband thinks I'm demented, running back and forth swinging a broom at them. He stopped me this year, took the broom out of my hands and said 'here, use this instead' and gave me an electric bug zapper that looks like a badminton racket.
I'm sure by the end of the summer those bees hated my guts and if they could sting, I'd be refilling my Epi-pen over and over again.
Still, I want to hear how the bee houses work out. Heck I'm willing to build them a condo if they just.....leave......our.....house....ALONE!
Cynthia12. Good luck on the surgery. Good time of the year to do that and get it out of the way so you can spend winter recuperating.
wishing you a safe fast recover will be praying for you also
It's 29 degrees here right now. Die bugs die!
sorry pulled part to copy but would quote you .... I am with you Epi-Pen wise but have not had the bees this year a few wasps but things did get pollinated never caught sight of a honey bee might be my lack of vision or would also build them a nice home but afraid to draw the wasps out 
