How do you get rid of these damn things. Son of a bitches are eating my deck like nobodies business. I blast then with a torch when I get close and plug the ones in there that I can catch but I'm not out there all day.
Put boric acid (20 Mule Team Borax works) in the holes and plug them. Either dowel and cut it flush or my sister did corks just to hold the borax in then ignored the holes.
I use a small badminton racquet myself. However I've also had pretty good luck using spectracide carpenter bee killer. Just cover the hole with duct tape, leave a small opening for the spectracide nozzle, fill 'er up with foam and seal the duct tape to keep the foam from just dribbling back out. Fortunately they can't really hide their holes very well during construction because the sawdust leaves a telltale marker below.
I used construction adhesive a few times. They'd try and crawl through it and get frozen like Han Solo. Visual deterrent. -jim
I'd really like to try with a BB gun. That was my first thought.... then I saw Metalhead posted it lol That would be fun. Well except for the neighbor.
Okay, the google machine is messing with me, which ones are "tool wearing"? This is what I got so far in images: