Ground nesting Bees?

Usually, they find soft ground under or near crepe myrtles.

crepe myrtles or wax myrtles?

Brain fart-dammit

The ones I've seen that make holes like that look similar to this and are harmless



Now if you see something like this they will tear your arse up.

I used to play with those as a kid, they are harmless. I never got stung and I would stick things down the holes and the bees would pull them out

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Pic #2 + open cab tractor= ABANDON SHIP.

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I had one of those things in my monkey grass a few years back. I was blowing leaves across it and started getting stung. Dropped the blower and got inside quick as I could. Called our pest guy. He wanted to know where I saw them. I said "You can't miss them. There's a blower laying on top of them."

Long story short, he came out and killed them all. Then a few days later, there was a big hole and mounded up dirt in my monkey grass. And chunks of comb all over the tops of the monkey grass and on our walkway. Something got it some dinner.

I have luckily never been hit by ground hornets before and hope and pray that I never will. Those MFers scare the hell out of me.

Is there anything I can spread on my lawn to sort of treat the ground so they don't build nests in my lawn?

You really don't have to worry until Late Summer/Fall.

Oh, and they have no known attraction to Wax Myrtles.

Yes, they like ground. Mine always get in my landscaping.