Nearby flowering areas are attractive to carpenter bees as they are known pollinators. Alternatively, carpenter bees are also attracted to wooden areas that remain untreated and could be a potential nesting location.

Carpenter bees are not nearly as damaging as termites, but they are known to cause cosmetic damage to wooden structures. A female bee will create a tunnel in wood to create a safe nesting location for her offspring to develop. They are known to ‘reuse’ previous years nesting locations and will widen the previous tunnels entrance. Cosmetic damage caused by carpenter bees can due to the expanding of previously used tunnels, moisture causing rotting and decay inside tunnels, or the creation of multiple tunnels on the same wooden structure.