The carpenter bee is so called because of where it chooses to make it s home.
Carpenter bees in house siding.
The female carpenter bee is the one who makes the hole by chewing through the wood.
Carpenter bees usually have a furry.
Common places for bees to hide and build nests include overhangs cracks window frames shutters door frames and underneath the siding.
Carpenter bees prefer to excavate their nests in soft unpainted wood such as the back side of fascia boards siding window trim and porch ceilings.
They make holes in siding soffits decks posts and the painted or bare wood of barns and sheds especially when the paint is old hottel says.
If you covered any nests with the vinyl and failed to treat these nests it s quite likely there are bees emerging that are now able to move.
Instead they burrow into soft woods such as the siding of a house to live in and lay larvae.
If you read our carpenterbee control article you ll learn this bee will over winter or live in nests when it gets cold every spring they ll want to emerge.
A closer look at a hole in wood shows carpenter bee inside.
If just a straight fiberglass insect screen is installed against the wall sheathing and folded up over the furing strips is this sufficient or should it be wrapped over something solid like the cor a vent product.
I know it used to be detailed this way before products like.
They are solitary bees and are not part of a larger hive community.