On the topic of salespeople and expert advice, I was in the Southern
States in Carrboro a few years ago and mentioned to a guy there (also
named Jim... the good to his evil twin at Lowe's, perhaps?) that I had
bees boring into the sides of the log home I was renting at the time.
Southern States Jim told me they were carpenter bees and gave me almost
exactly the advice described in the N&O article. He was great! So,
perhaps more of a specialty store like Southern States is the place to
go.

I managed to beat them back that year with Southern States Jim's advice,
but the next they were back with a vengeance and now the friends who
still live there tell me sitting on the back deck, under the overhang,
they are continually dusted with sawdust. Blech. After living with them
for three years in that log home, they were the first thing I looked for
when house-shopping for a place of my own. With a non-pun knock on wood,
I'm clear so far.

--
Michael Williams "Babies are really lardy."
--Kat
www.ibiblio.org/michael "But they're full of life!"
www.robustmcmanlypants.org/blog/ --Josh