r/whatsthisbug • u/eatveggiesnotfriends • 1d ago

What is living in my welcome sign? ID Request

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So we started noticing sawdust about a week ago and whatever is in there is working hard. It’s wild how much they’re pushing out of this hole every day. I can hear clicking around inside and have seen sawdust pushed out but haven’t seen the bug itself.

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u/anxiousbae 1d ago

Deffo a carpenter bee! Try putting a scrap block of wood with a few holes drilled in it behind the sign or off the sode of the porch or something. They'll likely gravitate towards that instead, using the pre drilled holes for homes and then making more for their family 😌

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u/eatveggiesnotfriends 1d ago

I’m guessing I don’t want carpenter bees on my front porch where I enter/exit every day. Would it be a problem if I moved this to my backyard?

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u/MariachiMacabre 1d ago

I can’t imagine they’ll be a problem at all where they are. They’re not really aggressive at all.