12. Natural spray repellent Make this natural bee repellent and spray it into the holes to get rid of the wood bees. Mix together a few essential oils – 1/8 ounce each of tea-tree oil, jojoba oil, pennyroyal oil, ½ ounce citronella oil and ¼ ounce lavender oil – and pour them...
You can also spray a non-harmful bee repellent into the holes to encourage them to move out. Seal them up with wooden dowelling coated with wood glue, wood putty, steel wool, or caulk. You’ll also want to paint or stain over the holes to prevent them from coming back. Doing so will...
ORGANIC BEE REPELLENT AND PAINT ADDITIVE If you prefer an “organic” solution which won’t injure any insect yet still keep them off treated surfaces, go withNBS REPELLENT. Made from essential plant oils, this 100% natural product isn’t a pesticide and won’t kill any insect so you’ll ...
The best preventive measures are to keep susceptible wood painted. Semi-transparent stains are not an effective repellent. People who live in log homes or other wood sided structures that are not painted can apply chemical treatments, but these moisture sensitive chemicals often need to be re-appl...
will further spread it over their body as they attempt to clean it off, enhancing effectiveness. The insecticide gel is a mild repellent and should never be applied to a trap. The attractiveness of an actual bee nest will typically override the repellent nature of the insecticide gel and ...
Some hydrocarbon compounds are also known as repellents for some insects42 and are detected by gustatory receptor neurons43. Overall, our results indicated that two ant-specific CSPs (CjapCSP12 and CjapCSP13) are highly expressed in the chemosensory organs, and these genes tend to show higher ...