Carpenter bees and bumble bees rely on blooming flowers from early spring to fall to provide for them all year. Some people believe carpenter bees feed on wood, but in reality, they only chew ...

Carpenter bees are known to drill into wooden structures ... back into that wood anyway,” Jacobs says. How do bees make honey? A scientist breaks down this intricate process.

Nesting: They create individual nests and do not live in colonies like bumblebees or honey bees. Size: They are generally ...

These large black bees hover around the outside of homes, buildings, sheds, barns, and decks. They are searching for mates and favorable sites to construct their nests.

Some types of bees — like honey bees — have barbed stingers that remain in your skin. Other types — like carpenter bees, or venomous insects like wasps — have smooth stingers that stay ...

Journal of the New York Entomological Society Vol. 24, No. 3, Sep., 1916 The Carpenter-Bees of the United States ... The Carpenter-Bees of the United States of the Genus Xylocopa This is the metadata ...