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Originally Posted by Jacko
They are great for organic gardens! Along with the ladybug and assorted wasps that both eat various bad bugs.
What I hate are the dreaded carpenter bee that can drill a 1/4 hole in a piece of wood in no time flat....and then it gets worse when the exalted pileated woodpeckers tear the entire piece of wood apart trying to the get to the carpenter bee and its nest!
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We've got lotsa ladybugs in our yard too. Not many wasps though... which is OK by me.
Carpenter Bees suck. I've yet to figure out what benefit they serve other than to destroy any and all woodwork. Thankfully, they do not sting because they are both annoying and scary looking boogers. We've been fortunate although our yard and adjacent properties are filled with woodpeckers... they've yet to attack our house in search of Carpenter Bees.
Our street is across from a water treatment facility (and no it's not sewer treatment, it's drinking water) which has a water reservoir and is the breeding ground for huge hatches of May flies. Every year we get several huge hatches of May flies. And I do mean HUGE... kinda like Alfred Hitchcocks "The Birds" only with "The May Flies" instead. Just had a hatch this past week and they really freaked out our new neighbor. Funny to see a harmless bug freak out a grown man. I think they're neat because they're such docile insects that will land and hang out on anything... think ladybug... only problem is they're not quite as cute and pretty.