[davephan]

That's a smart idea! I was working on one of my control boxes and saw a few dead bees inside the control box. I have the extra screen laying around doing nothing and the extra glue. The control box covers do have holes that bees could enter.

I always do maintenance, when required on my two 12 zone sprinkler systems myself. I installed those sprinkler systems myself. plus two sprinkler systems in two previous homes. I was an IT worker before I retired, and I wasn't in the sprinkler system line of work. The work isn't that hard to do, but that's one of the risks of the work, that you could run into bees. The bees can live in a neighbor's sprinkler control box or around their homes, instead of my control boxes or around my home!

It depends on the work. Sometimes it's work you feel you can do yourself, sometimes it's something to pay someone else. I used to shovel and snow blow my driveway in my Minnesota home. I've been paying a company to do that work for the past six years. I used to change my oil in my cars. I've paid someone else to do that work decades ago. But I still do the lawn mowing at the Minnesota house now, but that will come to an end soon.

In my future Florida home, I'll pay someone else to do the lawn mowing and pool maintenance. Maybe I'd still do the sprinkler system maintenance in Florida. The older you get, the more things you're willing you are to pay someone else to do those jobs.