Nature Wood Barn Style Carpenter Bee Traps for Outdoors, 1 Pack Best Wooden Bee Trap for Outside

Cute design and functional. Had helped keep these very enthusiastic carpenter bees at bay. Easy to empty and clean as well.

the product broke after hanging it for less than a week.the top is still hanging the bottom part fell to the floor, I believe will be able to fix it, but this is not sturdy.did not test as a actual trap

This carpenter bee trap is modeled after a well-known concept. Carpenter bees enter the small openings to establish a colony thinking the trap is a wood log. Then they crawl into the transparent plastic tube and remain in there until they die without ever establishing a colony. Apparently, the bees are drawn to light and are just too dumb to exit the trap the way they entered, so they remain in the plastic tube until death. Moreover, dead bees in the trap do not deter new bees from entering, though I would recommend emptying the trap if too many dead ones accumulate in the tube.Having just installed the trap (simply hammer in a nail in the area you are attempting to protect and hang it), I have not yet trapped any bees. But I know the concept works. Having said that, don't expect this, or any similar trap, to totally eliminate the bees. For total elimination, you are looking at hiring an exterminator for regular visits in perpetuity! The idea here is to merely keep the numbers down to avoid serious damage to your deck, facia, or whatever you are trying to protect. This is a good tool for that, though I recommend buying at least two or three.Finally, be aware that these species only attempt to establish colonies certain times of the year, so don't be discouraged if you see no bees in the trap for a period of time. Be patient.

When I opened the box, I was amazed at how well this carpenter bee trap is put together, and actually how pretty this looks. I got the one that looks like a barn since we live in the country. We have a severe problem with these bees and this type of trap was recommended to me by someone who has them already. On the house, it looks like the bees just drill a hole in the wood, but the reality is that they go in, then chew channels in the wood. That to make it worse, we then had Pileated Woodpeckers come and peck into the wood on the house to get the bees, leaving large channels of torn up wood. This trap has an angled up hole in it that the bees will go into, then they can't get back out and fall into the bottle below. They then put out a chemical smell that attracts other bees to come to the rescue. Once the bees die, you can empty the bottle. I guess if you don't like killing them, you could take them somewhere else and release them. Our bee season is over for this year, but I'm told these work well so I will give it a try next year. We literally have hundreds of them show up every year in the spring. This year our front porch was covered in sawdust from them.

I already have one of these that I purchased last year from WM online. I was a little disappointed that it was so small, but regardless, it does a phenomenal job of catching the carpenter bees which are destroying my fence & keeping us away from certain parts of our yard. (See last pic of holes made in the cross bracing of the fence.)This product is larger & much more sturdily made. There are only a couple of things that I would say could be improved upon. One thing that everyone is commenting on is the fact that the tube is plastic. That is not a problem whatsoever. At least it isn't with my other one. The plastic on that one has held up well. What COULD be better on this one is if the tube opened up at the bottom like my old one. That is very convenient for emptying them. Still, probably not a real big deal.Secondly, I'm sure it would be very helpful to have some sort of brief directions. I was already familiar to how they worked thanks to my other one having, not only instructions on how to use it, but helpful tips & tricks. I saw someone write they put sugar water in it, that is not at all necessary with these

Looked great... worked if you like it Empty! Didn't catch one simple bee in this model!!!

I got this pretty late in the season, so the bees weren't active when I hung it - I definitely believe it will work to keep those pests out of my pavilion wood. Also planning to re-paint and patch existing holes on that, so the bare wood of this trap will be far more attractive.I initially screwed in the provided eyelet in the pre-started hole on the top of the trap. Next day I came out to find the roof of the trap had detached and caused the trap to fall to the ground. It wasn't a particularly windy night, and upon inspection I noted that it was held together merely with basic staples - nothing to firmly keep it together. I easily re-inserted the staples into the holes from which they came and bopped the roof back onto its original construction with my hand - obviously this is secure construction. I opted to re-hang from the back mount, which is secured into the wood. I contemplated putting some wood glue in the joint before reattaching it, but I figured since the rest of the joints were likely made with this same level of security, it didn't do me any good unless I was going to glue the whole thing. Securing from the back and understanding that it is of more basic construction will suffice for my needs.

I have a homemade type of these, so I am already familiar with these sorts of traps. We have carpenter bees everywhere and holes in everything! We don't want to spray everything and these little traps are great. The bees go in the hikes and try to find their way back out through the light coming in the bottom. The go right into the jar. The jar is plastic, which is fine as long as it lasts the life of the trap. I don't know how it'll hold up in the sunlight over time. A glass jar would've been better but maybe the chance of it breaking was a concern. I have a friend who has 5 of these traps and they all had a bunch of bees trapped in them. If you're tempted to paint them, don't. Bees go for the raw wood.