Pests We Treat Photo Album: Heavy Digger Bee Activity in Lakewood, NJ

So Many Digger Bees

As you can see, there were so many digger bees throughout this customer's yard.

Where Digger Bees Nest

Digger bees, also called ground bees, are roughly 1/4 to 1/2 inch long and typically nest in areas of the landscape where the grass is sparse or very thin. The female digger bees "dig" nests into the ground that are about 1/2 of an inch deep.

Pencil-Sized Hole

You'll realize you have a digger bee infestation when you find little mounds of soil with a pencil-sized hole in it. Digger bees are solitary bees that live one colony per hole, but for this situation, we have a digger bee community!

Quickly Terminates the Digger Bees

For treatment, we applied some granular bait throughout the yard and then injected a residual dusting application into each one of the digger bee mounds. Both of these treatments will quickly neutralize the digger bees.

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