This gets 'em every time! Identify live used holes during the day. Right after dark, shoot the holes full of "Goof Off" in a spray can. Listen for the "buzz of death". Do this every year, it takes a while for all the descendants to stop coming to the same spot to spawn, not to mention that new ones prefer existing holes to breed in. And yes, the caulking gun is good to use on a dead hole. Polyurethane is particularly distasteful to them. Daddybob
> Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 06:43:47 -0400 > From: Ode Coyote <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: CS>Germs, plagues and Nostradamus > > I know this is getting off topic..but but but. > > I have about an acre of 80 to 100 ft tall tulip > trees [poplar] right next > to the house. They do hover up there a lot. > Thompsons is the only finish on the house...doesn't > slow em down a'tall. > [They just make funny faces and keep on > drilling..and I keep on filling > with silicon. Seal em up inside the hole!] > I'm working on the bad bee gun [BBgun?..darn, the > name has been taken] > Similar to a potato cannon but shoots bird seed. > Muzzle blast from an emptied shotgun shell works > good...costs too much and > worries the neighbors if very frequent. They only > play with thier machine > guns now and then. [They have wood bees too?] > That's cool. > Weapon of mass destruction? Pressure washer. > Cleans em right out of the sky. > > WD 40 does prevent the making of Mud Dobber nests > [apartment buildings]. > The mud doesn't stick. Ever been "flipped off" by a > mud dobber? [Well? > Go fill up a fuel line or air tool somewhere, > turkey!] LOL > PS Mud Dobbers are cool in some ways. They don't > sting. They catch > spiders and pack em in their holes like Dixie Cups. > They like to hum tunes too. > ..and they used to fill up wood bee holes while the > bee was off to lunch. > New contract at the Union Hall? > > OK, I quit now. > > Ode > > At 10:48 PM 5/1/2004 -0400, you wrote: > >Yo Ode, > > > >WD40 and other solvents (kerosene) (Thompson's > >wood sealer) makes the wood unpalatable-able > >to the buggers. I also nail them with a BB or > pellet > >air gun, as they hover a lot. Dropping one in > "hover mode" > >really is satisfying. > > > >Someone also told me they LOVE > >tulip trees, the tops of which are seen loaded with > >flying carpenter bees. If you have such a tree, > check > >out the top of the tree where the tulip"buds" are > with > >binoculars. Usually there are dozens of them there. > > > >Good luck. > >Tom Bassett WM2M > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
