Carpenter Bees and Lumber from Europe
Carpenter bees are trying to eat my house. They’re overjoyed to find all that unfinished lumber standing out in the open — ring the dinner bell! Two days ago I found 4 holes they’d started to dig. I squirted some subfloor glue in the holes and noticed a bee around them later, probably very upset. Yesterday I caught one digging a new hole next to a hole I’d glued shut. I grabbed a 2×4 and crushed the little bugger (actually not so little — carpenter bees are the Godzilla of the bee world). My house is offically now a bee-free zone.
Maybe the bees are attracted to European lumber. Has anyone else noticed all the lumber from Germany, Austria, etc in the lumber yards? It’s all that my local building supply company stocks. Sort of like “fine Corinthian leather” — my house is built from “fine German spruce”. Maybe we get it here because we’re so close to the port of Norfolk. Or maybe while the American lumber industry is protesting against Canada, Europe is taking over. I had assumed that the Old World ran out of timber hundreds of years ago.
1 comment June 1st, 2006
