Killing Carpenter Bees with Salt Shot

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I know this is not the core of the thread (which is FUN ways to take out individual insects and get some wing-shooting practice at the same time), but the least poisonous way I have found to take out a nest of wasps is this:

I put on my field jacket and two pairs of jeans (one pair extra-large), gloves and a net beekeeper-style head covering, duct-taped the cuffs (for protection) T

Then I simply grabbed the entire wasp nest, pulled it down and dunked it into a bucket of soapy water. The soap lowers the surface tension of the water and enables the drowning of all kinds of insects which would normally survive a dousing.

I discovered this when I tried to drown a cockroach. It simply jumped up out of the water and ran away. When I threw it in soapy water....done.

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This is a fire ant sculpture made by pouring molten aluminum into the fire ant home. Poetic justice. We dont have fire ants in my area, luckily, but ground bees are an equally despicable and worthy recipient of this artistic treatment, so that's our plan.

Btw this thread proves the point that boys never grow up, they just grow old. Here's to doing boy stuff!
 

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nobody mentioned my favorite: slingshot with wet sand or rice or birdseed on borer bees. They are great fun sitting on the deck in the afternoon as summer comes on. I have used a red rider and can hit a small percentage with it. Pretty dramatic when you do!
 
Toprudder said:
I'm pretty sure it is illegal to use salt in a long gun, because that would make it "a salt rifle". :neener:
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That was a darned good joke..

You guys are making me want to get out and hunt some insects. (I guess they're insects.)
I'd probably do much better hunting those, Im not sure I could kill anything above the bottom couple of rungs on the mammal ladder. My daughters would probably flip out if I did manage to.
 
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I have had a small batch in my wood pile for 5 years. The population never seems to grow. I just leave them alsone as they aren't causing me any grief. (yet) They do sound like an airplane when they fly by.
The ones by me are not agressive and I have never been stung.
They do make perfect 1/2 holes in wood though.

If was trying to wipe them out I would use some type of bug (insect) spray.
Thats what it is designed to do, kill bugs. Sevin, Malathion, others are available. Seven also acts as a stomach posion as well as a contact posion.

Of course if they are the really big ones some 3" 12 guage Turkey loads with HeviShot should do the trick. :D
 
A couple of times at the club we would have a fly match. Get a large white poster board. paint small areas with mayo and get ready to have fun. Fly's will be there in no time.
 
I began 'bee skeet' when I was using my spotting scope at the local range, and occasionally I'd get some fine wood dust falling on me. Then I started noticing weird yellow spots atop my scope..... smelled like pine wood..... "BEE PEE!" :eek:
So I started taking the revolver and CCI .22 shotshells out there. Can only do that when the range is empty except me and my shooting buddy though.
At home, I use wasp spray - fires a good long stream. Nuked a hornet nest with that stuff. Folded the little critters up quick!
 
Jason75979 said:
Believe it or not, this does NOT work. At least not with yellow jackets. Neither has gas, diesel, xylene, sevin, sprays, or any other wild ass ideas I've come up with.
And I'd suggest letting the better half know before employing such a tactic.
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Didn't say it would work, I just want to try it. :D Hey, if nothing else works, you may as well pick the method that is the most fun.
 
Used to be able to use "Dursban" until it was banned by the EPA. Too bad---it was deadly on yellow jackets, bees, ants, and probably humans.
Look at the BAYER products. Should find something effective there.
 
drband said:
Used to be able to use "Dursban" until it was banned by the EPA. Too bad---it was deadly on yellow jackets, bees, ants, and probably humans.
Look at the BAYER products. Should find something effective there.
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It's sale was banned, if you have existing stocks you can still use it. Oddly enough there is only one insecticide that is not poisonous to human beings and is still extremely effective. When they banned that it saved 5 California condors and sentenced hundreds of thousands of human beings to death by insect borne diseases.
 
Officers'Wife said:
It's sale was banned, if you have existing stocks you can still use it. Oddly enough there is only one insecticide that is not poisonous to human beings and is still extremely effective. When they banned that it saved 5 California condors and sentenced hundreds of thousands of human beings to death by insect borne diseases.
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That damn buzzard needs to go the way of the dodo.
 
When I find where they're boring a hole, I give a squirt of foaming wasp spray in the hole and that takes care of that spot. I haven't tried it for carpenter bees, but I have an issue with box elder bugs and I use this stuff called Buggslayer.
http://bugg-products.myshopify.com/...-insecticide-beb-malb-concentrate-1x16-floz-1
I spray it all over the siding and it dries and is unseen. When bugs walk on it, they pick up the killing agent and absorb it and die.
 
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