Insects are becoming more active, certain plants are blooming, many edible plants are emerging and many mammals, birds and ...

Annabel Heseltine could write a book about it… Deep marine-blue wings fan fat juicy-gold tentacles, or in other words, a violet carpenter bee hovers over Jerusalem sage. I am sitting on a ...

Carpenter bee (Xylocopa varipuncta) in the nature, flying into the cavity on wooden. Passiflora flower macro and Xylocopa violacea, the violet carpenter bee Passiflora caerulea in macro shot and ...

Male carpenter bees lack stingers, and though females do have them, they are docile and don’t sting unless handled or ...

Spring is here, which means those giant bees buzzing around are back — and that could spell trouble for your porch or deck. The insects you’re seeing are carpenter bees, which are large bees ...

Bee season is all the buzz in North Carolina. Last week, we told you about carpenter bees, which are one of the most effective pollinators in in the state. Unfortunately, they can also leave ...

The bees are effective pollinators, but the holes they leave behind can be a nuisance and can lead to further damage from fungi and attacks by other insects, such as carpenter ants, according to ...