A carpenter bee is about ¾ to 1-inch long and nest in excavated tunnels in wood. “An easy way to tell the difference between carpenter bees and bumble bees is that carpenters have a bald ...

"Typically, carpenter bee holes don’t cause serious structural damage," says Ken Johnson, a horticulture educator with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. "However, if the tunnels are ...

Walk into the woods and you are bound to find standing dead trees, otherwise known as snags. Here's what you may not know about them.

Male and female carpenter bees have different jobs. The sole responsibility of the female is to excavate a series of tunnels using her powerful mandibles to make a home for her offspring.