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A carpenter bee with a shiny black body resting on a wooden stump near its hole
Pest control

Carpenter bee prevention & humane removal (and why!)

...Woodpeckers are predators of carpenter bee larvae and can cause extensive, destructive damage by pecking and splintering the wood to get to the Carpenter bee nests and galleries. In my personal experience with a wood shingle roof and red cedar fascia boards, while the Carpenter bees made the first holes, it was the woo...