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The badmitton racket works good and is fun. For the ultimate challenge (or the shy ones that refuse to come within reach) I will break out the pellet rifle. Don't have to pump it up very much. Make sure you are shooting in a safe direction and have fun.
The best index to a person’s character is (a) how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can’t fight back.
- Abigail van Buren
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Freak of Nature
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I wish the company that makes those Bug-a-Salt guns that shoot salt (for killing flies and such) would make an upgraded one that shot kosher salt and hard enough to kill a carpenter bee, wasp, horse fly, etc.
If you shoot a carpenter bee with Kosher salt do they still get to go to heaven? I hope they all go to HELL!!! 
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spike
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a couple tubes of caulk or silicone and fill the holes at night...
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a.k.a. Dingle Johnson
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I wish the company that makes those Bug-a-Salt guns that shoot salt (for killing flies and such) would make an upgraded one that shot kosher salt and hard enough to kill a carpenter bee, wasp, horse fly, etc.
If you shoot a carpenter bee with Kosher salt do they still get to go to heaven?  They are tearing up our porch...going to make some traps sometime soon. Sometimes I post (What I think is) really funny stuff and I wonder if anyone even notices. Of course a lot of stuff seems funny when you've had a couple of beers.
"When I say ever thing I mean ever thing." - Frankie
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I wish the company that makes those Bug-a-Salt guns that shoot salt (for killing flies and such) would make an upgraded one that shot kosher salt and hard enough to kill a carpenter bee, wasp, horse fly, etc.
If you shoot a carpenter bee with Kosher salt do they still get to go to heaven? They are tearing up our porch...going to make some traps sometime soon. Sometimes I post (What I think is) really funny stuff and I wonder if anyone even notices. Of course a lot of stuff seems funny when you've had a couple of beers. Are you a couple a beers deep from last night, or starting early this morning. Either way its Thursday haha
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a.k.a. Dingle Johnson
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Are you a couple a beers deep from last night, or starting early this morning. Either way its Thursday haha
Heck. I went to bed last night at about 2130. "Early to bed. Early to rise." Does something for a man. I don't know what it is though.
"When I say ever thing I mean ever thing." - Frankie
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10 point
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Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
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I wish the company that makes those Bug-a-Salt guns that shoot salt (for killing flies and such) would make an upgraded one that shot kosher salt and hard enough to kill a carpenter bee, wasp, horse fly, etc.
If you shoot a carpenter bee with Kosher salt do they still get to go to heaven? They are tearing up our porch...going to make some traps sometime soon. Woodpeckers will tear up your porch because of the evil bastages.
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Cold beer and a red rider bb gun.
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I got into them with my daughters red ryder last summer after having a few cold pops. I think I bagged 6 in a matter of an hour or so. It was a blast.
Public Land Owner
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Round 1 - Carburetor Cleaner will kill them faster than wasp spray. Take the little red extension tube and run it up in the hole and give it a good soaking. That will keep them out of the hole for the rest of the season and kill whatever is in there. It is kinda like yellow jackets do it at night when they are in the hole. You'll knock a serious dent in the population.
Round 2 - The preventative maintenance is a couple of traps. I do not know how to permanently get rid of them apparently whatever they treat wood with these days doesn't bother them they'll bore a hole right into a piece of treated lumber.
No government employees were harmed in the making of this mess.
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I have a couple of the bee traps and my bees will not go in them, I will have to try the card cleaner...
The end of democracy and the defeat of the American revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporation's Thomas Jefferson. 1812
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14 point
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I bought a new grill about 2 weeks ago. Went to cook on it last night and there was sawdust on the front table right below the handle. Little bastard had bored a hole and was chilling inside. They don't like PB Blaster.
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Freak of Nature
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Do carpenter bees measure to the 1/32 of an inch?
"Why do you ask"?
Too many people spend money they don't have , on things they don't need, to impress people they don't know.
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Depends of if you measure length or beam.
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Depends of if you measure length or beem. FIFY
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Do carpenter bees measure to the 1/32 of an inch? ![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/KSDJ7DF.gif)
Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
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I have put out 6 traps and have probably gotten rid of over 150 bees in less than a month. I had one little bastage bore a hole in the bottom of a wooden rocking chair on the deck. Could not believe it.
"Don't cling to Mistake, just because you spent a lot of time making it."
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Cynoff dust in the hole I think it's a 3/8 dowel rod that fits perfectly wood putty over them. Preventive measure is to spray the fence with something like talstar p to repel them. I bet ive fixed a million of those holes
We will burn that bridge when we get there
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spray demon and they will disappear quickly
Let us cross over the river and rest in the shade of the trees
Stonewall Jackson
Hug your loved ones often, Life is short even on its longest days.
I don't see the glass as half full or half empty. I just finish it and order another.
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