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   sawdust_steve | May 19, 2017 01:08pm | #1

   Looks Good Mel. Nice work

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   user-2409187 | Jun 02, 2017 11:03am | #2

   Thank you. Our aim is to encourage outdoor dining and other family activities. We all need places of respite, and this patio does the trick for me and my sweetie...and the grown-up children, when they visit. We sit here on NYEve and on other chilly occasions :)  One problem: borer (carpenter) bees. We seem to have solved that with a nifty trap we designed. Hung at various locations, they are working well. I hate to kill animals, but the borer threatens our outdoor activities....sigh.   BTW, I host weekly Corn Hole games here. The neighbors bring they boards and beers. You select your partner from the hat. Each player plunks a dollar in the hat, and the winner takes the loot. Very pleasant...fun way to build relational bridges, which are so badly needed in these times.

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   calvin | Jun 04, 2017 09:21am | #3

   Alright Mel

   How bout some detail on the borer trap?

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   user-2409187 | Jun 04, 2017 03:10pm | #4

   Ha...so you wanna copy my design and cheat me outta a couple thousand buck$ :) 'K , friend, I'll do ya a fav., take a pic, and explain the details. And...uh...I might photograph the carcasses that have accumulated in the trap :) I'm an animal lover, but I wonder what Mother had in mind when she fashioned carpenter, borer bees! :)

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   DanH | Jun 04, 2017 05:51pm | #5

   How does this differ from a standard wasp trap?

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   user-2409187 | Jun 05, 2017 01:00pm | #6

   I have no idea what a "standard wasp trap" is, but the essential principal is this: A 1/4" entry hole is bored near the top and into the cedar box at 45 degrees. At the bottom end of the box a small plastic bottle is attached. The borer enters the hole and climbs into the box. Once inside, the only source of light (read, "exit") comes from the attached plastic bottle. Wishing to get out, it enters the bottle...and dies a slow death.

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   calvin | Jun 05, 2017 11:18pm | #7

   Ok

   Where do you live, some slim down diet community?  All the carp bees in Ohio drill (chew) 1/2" holes in the bottom edge of things without a starter hole.

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   DanH | Jun 10, 2017 08:17pm | #12

   Here are a bunch of different wasp traps:  https://www.google.com/search?q=wasp+trap&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwja7pjdwbTUAhVB3WMKHZ2HApEQ_AUICygC&biw=1107&bih=545

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   user-2409187 | Jun 06, 2017 09:36am | #8

   Love your humor, Mensch! Yeh, I do live in a health-conscious town where most of us are ecentric :) Of course, I am entirely normal with a fit body and 180 lb to my name...and I'm 67 :)  Our borers are health-conscious too! 

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   viperdvr | Jun 06, 2017 10:14pm | #9

   Mel, turn that idea into pictures

   Mel, Thanks!  I am the other guy in the Glass city and I appreciate you passing on your borer trap.  I would say honey trap but not so much.  Can they not eat thru the plastic bottle?   A picture would be great!

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   user-2409187 | Jun 09, 2017 08:39am | #10

   Boys, did you see the photo I posted of the borer trap? 

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   calvin | Jun 10, 2017 07:13pm | #11

   I did .....

   but 2800 miles from home can't do much about it.  Thanks for posting.