Advice needed on huge bee and ant invasions in my yard.

[DebJ]

10. After doing some reading, there is good news and bad news on the bees.

The good news is that the males do not sting, and the females have to be seriously aggravated to do so.

The bad news is that we have so very many of these bees, I'm afraid they will kill the holly tree, and that would
cost about $1000 to take down, it is so tall (I'm guessing because we had another tree removed 8 years
ago of similar height (long dead before we bought the house, and only a few branches left on it) and
that cost $700.

Also, our wooden frame, 60 year old windows desperately need replacing, but it will be many years before
we can afford to do that, we have so many large windows, and they are an open invitation to the carpenter bees.

Phooey.