How to Get Rid of Digger Bees

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Tip 1 - What are Digger Bees & How to Get Rid of Them | The Home Depot Community

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Tero Viitanen | permalink

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Tip 2 - How to Get Rid of Ground Digger Wasps (Cicada Killers) from Your Lawn

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Jay Hyde | permalink

This article provides instructions on how to eradicate the ground-digger wasp (also known as the cicada-killer), should you have nest infestations on your lawn or property. Learn about ground digger wasps. Ground-digger wasps (GDWs) are...
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Tip 3 - How to Kill Digger Bees | eHow

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Brightwonder | permalink

Digger bees are solitary insects that resemble other kinds of bee species such as yellow jackets and honey bees. Unlike these other more social species, digger bees are not aggressive and live one bee per nest. Their nests, small mounds of dirt with a hole in the center, can be constructed closely together to create the appearance of a colony. If...

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Tip 4 - Let mining bees be

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Rebecca Nelson | permalink

Right now, everyone wants to kill mining bees. Well, they don’t say “kill,” they say “get rid of.” It’s all the same. So, what is a mining bee? Basically, it’s a type of bee that builds nests in un...

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Tip 5 - What Are Digger Bees and Why Do They Need to Be Controlled?

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Shlomo Nisgav | permalink

Digger bees can be pests or they can be beneficial. Swarms of them can be quite scary, but are usually quite harmless. They act much like honey bees, but they are solitary bees and not social bees. They don't live together in hives, but live underground in individual nests. There

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Tip 6 - How Do You Get Rid of Mining Bees and Ground-Nesting Wasps

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by janbanan | permalink

Having ground-nesting wasps and mining bees in your garden is beneficial: they're predators to harmful garden pests, pollinate your plants and their underground burrows aerate the soil. This ...

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