[Summit] Swarm season alert

[Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur]

Carpenter bees do pollinate, but they don't live in hives so no honey. 
If you are looking for their homes, look for perfect round holes about 
the diameter of a dime in thick but unpainted wood--fence posts are a 
fave. If they are in your walls or moldings, don't worry--they won't 
come through into the house. But if you'd rather they live elsewhere, 
you can spray the hole with a hose and chase them out, then patch up and 
paint the wood. They may look big and aggressive, but they don't sting. 
The male, who is the one who is likely to chase you around, does not 
even have a stinger, and you basically have to pick up the female in 
order to provoke her to sting.

--Mikaila
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> Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 11:14:37 -0400
> From: Breslers <breslerfamily at gmail.com>
> To: Tony Adams <aa44ee at gmail.com>,	Summit Neighborhood
> 	<Summit at sna.providence.ri.us>
> Subject: Re: [Summit] Swarm season alert
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> Thank you
> And thank you for keeping bees
> Helps my cucumbers
>
> Do carpenter bees make honey?
> Pollinate?
> WQe have a few hanging around. Not sure where nest is.
>
> Mrs B
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Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur
mmlarthur at gmail.com <mailto:mmlarthur at gmail.com>