Carpenter bees

[ember86]

I don't care if they are docile, they're freaking scary looking!   And they live somewhere in my backyard.

[TwistedWindSox]

Oh gosh, they're so scary... 
When I lived in NY, we had a colony of them living INSIDE the pool deck... Made swimming a nightmare. D:

[Stuntmang]

I have apiphobia/spheksophobia and these guys do not help at all.

[teresat]

These guys live in a bush in our front yard and one of our trees in our back yard. Ours are pretty slow so I followed them.

[dinobuzz]

Yeah, we had some of these guys making a home on our front porch.
They female would drill the hole in the wood (they like non-treated wood) and the male would fly around to distract us. They drill a perfect hole I tell ya! I'd find wood shavings all over the steps....these busy beavers would drill a deep hole, lay eggs, pack in some saw dust/shavings, and then repeat the process. This way the eggs are protected.....my hubby took care of this situation and so far, they haven't been back.....    !

[SourdoughStomper]

I always thought they were fascinating. I kept my distance of course, but they loved to make those dens in our old dead tree.

[hyenacub]

They're not as bad as ants.  But that's my partiular phobia.

[ember86]

I wouldn't mind them so much if they weren't like the size of my thumb!

[hyenacub]

They get that big eh?  That's a bee and a half. 

[Diamond]

Yeah and they where dive bombing me cause I was weeding in there area today, just lovely.  I kept talking to them and telling them ah buzz off. 

[kaoskat]

Bees generally don't bother me much at all as long as they don't land on me. Wasp and hornet sorts however send me screaming for the hills.

[Eviecorn]

I'm not a bee fan!  I do think bees are cute, but at a distance ...

[melodys_angel]

Honeybees dont bother me soo much, but Wasps actually dig into the house and find thier wayto our basement int he spring.  Its annoying!

[invaderhorizongreen]

wasps and bees do  not bother me in the least i pick them up at work all the time and feed them. Oh today i found a bee in the window at work and picked it up and gave it some soda. To my surprise the bee deiced i was a comfy spot and settled down till i came to a tree in bloom then it left.

[LoftyWings]

My boyfriend and I came home this morning after my work-out to discover a carpenter bee boring a hole into the wood next to the call box by our building's front door   I called maintenance and left a message about it. I really hope they do something about it soon--I'm terrified to walk out the front door now!