Bumble bees, on the other hand, are shorter and hairier and have a yellow band near the end of their abdomen. Can carpenter bees sting more than once? Carpenter bees can sting multiple times ...

You can tell them apart because carpenter bees have smooth, shiny abdomens, primarily black with some yellow or white ...

Yellow-faced bees are slender, smooth and mostly black, and much smaller than the pure black female carpenter bee, another conspicuous non-native bee common in the islands. Some but not all ...