Spectracide Carpenter Bee and Ground Nesting Yellow Jacket Foaming Aerosol for Insects, 16-Ounce

This is the ONLY thing that FINALLY killed our Yellowjacket problem! My 12 y/o son and I are both very allergic to ALL bees! And we had thousands of Yellowjackets make a nest in between the wood boards and into the ground behind it, right in our parking area next to our front porch! The bees apparently did this while we were on vacation. I got stung 5 times just trying to get into my car twice!!! I had to try to park back farther after that, and walk in a big circle way around that area just to have to try to get near it anyway to get onto our porch to get in the house. We tried 4 different sprays that said they killed Yellowjackets. NONE of those even affected them!! Every single night, my fiancé sprayed the area in between the the wood where the bees came in and out. That way all the bees were in the nest and would get the poison on them. This spray is GREAT because it also expanded into the wood into the nest itself that was in the ground behind the wood that we couldn’t get to! Every single morning, we seen about 50-80 bees dead on the ground in front of the wood! We had to spray nearly an entire can every night for a week and a half to kill all the bees that were in that HUGE nest!! After there was no more bee activity there, my fiancé sprayed the area with clear flex seal to help reseal over it so that the bees couldn’t get back in there. There are now no more bees there and my son and I can now safely get in and out of my car and I can park back in my parking spot!! NEVER STOP MAKING THIS SPRAY!!!! It saved both mine and my son’s lives…. Along with our Epi-pens! We couldn’t be more pleased with how quickly and effectively this killed the yellow jackets when nothing else would!

The long nozzle works great for getting the foam into the holes that have been holes into wood. It is odorless and works effectively against carpenter bees. I was a little skeptical about the price, but it’s a good value for the size of the can. I would recommend to all.

I've fought the battle with carpenter bees periodically over the years. This year 2024, seemed harder than most at least here in the northeast. There is a tendency with these aerosols to take advantage of their maximum shooting with a stream range of 25 or 30 feet - avoid this temptation even though it it's convenient. As the instructions note, you will likely cover broad areas with the disappearing foam BUT you'll be less effective and rather wasteful. Best results per instructions are by applying foam directly into the tunnels the carpenter bees rapidly drill along with the expanding internal hollows. The concept is to have the bee return to the hole and get coated by the foam application. It is then carried deeper inside where it kills the bee and likely its family. If the bee is just beginning its drilling it may pay to monitor its progress over the next days so as to treat an early hole formation. Also, as noted in instructions, when the treated hole has done its work after a few days, cap the hole to avoid future incursions (I've used Mortite or plumbers putty with success). I have NOT used the carpenter bee "traps" that are sold and look like small bird houses that you hang nearby. My infestations seem to favor specific outside wood beams that are about 20 years old).

Tried everything. Had bees in my fountain…nothing worked til I got this…bees gone! Hurray!

We bought our house not realizing the damage that carpenter bees can do. I've had moderate success with another brand of spray, but just for killing the bees I can see and hit with the spray. I sprayed the holes and plugged them with caulking, only to see a dozen new holes, bored from the inside out this spring.After reading about some other pump sprays that leak all over and cost a lot, I opted for this product. The small extension straw reaches deep into the bore holes, and the foam fills the nest. 48 hours later (following the instructions) I filled the holes with caulking. There were no bees hovering around the holes, and we've only spotted a couple of bees in the last few days. This morning I noticed a queen, dead on the porch. It looks like we've pretty much wiped out the colony.

I bought this because it specifically says foaming on the label. I want something that I can spray into the carpenter bee holes, but this just all comes dribbling back out immediately. It doesn't foam up at all. Maybe it might foam if you spray it down into holes in the ground, but pretty disappointing for use in walls and porch ceilings. It seems like over 90% is wasted.

Lets just say, it doesn't work on Carpenter Bee's. It doesn't come out of the can as a fogger, so you have to ask the Carpenter Bee to sit still while you spray them with a very very weak stream of some sort of non-effective liquid that Spectracide calls Carpenter Bee killer...The Carpenter Bee's got more laughs out of this spray than I did!

This product works great on any decks