Springtime is here and summer is just around the corner. Although we are welcoming warmer weather and sunshine, there are always some unwelcome guests this time of year. Some bite, some slither, but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carpenter bee on a deck If you've noticed large bees buzzing around your deck, siding or other wooden parts of your house, you're ...

The shiny-black and yellow carpenter bees contemplating my cedar staircase zoom along a little drunkenly, looking oddly uncoordinated, as if they just passed their flight exam — and then only barely.

A carpenter bee on decking wood is seen in this file photo. Here’s what to do if you’re finding them tunneling into your Kentucky property this spring and summer. CB Strickland Getty ...

A carpenter bee on decking wood is seen in this file photo. If you’re struggling with one or more of the insects, here’s some tips to get rid of them. CB Strickland Getty Images/iStockphoto If you’ve ...

If you start to see little round holes on wooden surfaces, decks, and furniture, you might be facing a destructive pest in the form of a carpenter bee infestation. They they are beneficial insects, ...

At my brothers cabin deep in the southern Ohio woods, carpenter bees, known there as wood bees, are a big problem. They look for all-the-world like our big bumble bees, but they drill and burrow into ...

Wood-boring bees, also known as carpenter bees, are right on schedule this spring. These bees can be beneficial by serving as pollinators but can also destroy bare, unpainted soft woods, such as ...

Many years ago a neighbor approached me with a question about the carpenter bees busily working their way into the trim along his porch. We had never met. He was something of a hermit, but he knew of ...