![]() ![]() ![]() Hammer down the staples to keep them flush: These flanges will be stapled to the board to secure the bottle top in place:Īttach them in three opposing locations, to keep the bottletop level as you proceed: Now, mark the plastic bottle using the hole you just cut in the 1×4 board like this:Ĭut “flanges” in the top of the bottle using scissors: Next, drill a large hole in another piece of the 1×4 like this:Īnd cut the board to fit evenly over one end of the box you built out of 1x4s.ĭouble check the size of the hole (as compared to the size of your bottle) to make sure it will go through far enough - the screw on portion of the bottle should be past the board like this: (Pops used a band saw to do this, I would have used scissors - but he has a fancy shop he likes to show off.) Then, cut your plastic soda bottle in two pieces like this: Go ahead and nail that to the box keeping equal distances (edges) on all sides for this “roof” for the bee trap. ![]() Hammer and nails (medium finishing style nails)įirst, cut four pieces of 1×4 the same length (about 10 inches long) and screw them together like this:Ĭut a scrap of plywood (see photo above) so it overhangs all four sides of the box.Drill with a bit used to cut holes for installing doorknobs, and one for making “bee” holes.Scrap wood (a little plywood and a 1×4 board is all you need).A Plastic jar with a screw on lid (the kind nuts come in works great).So, Pops built me some traps to get rid of the little suckers and I thought my readers might be interested in how to build wood bee traps to eliminate carpenter bees.īelow are step-by-step instructions with lots of photos to make it easy for you to make your own anti-bee box - and they WORK! How To Build A Carpenter Bee Trap I don’t like using pesticides on the farm and my other methods (see the bottom of this post for those gory details) didn’t work well. They buzz around trying to pretend that they are harmless bumblebees, hoping I won’t notice that they are eating holes in my cabin’s woodwork, in my porch swing, in the hand-made trim from my father. My cabin is cursed with carpenter (wood boring) bees this time of the year. ![]()
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