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Carpenter bees can be timber pests, and cause substantial damage to wood if infestations go undetected for several years. [12] Two very different mating systems appear to be common in carpenter bees, and often this can be determined simply by examining specimens of the males of any given species. Species in which the males have large eyes are ...
The broad-handed carpenter bee is a very large, robust, solitary bee. It is shiny, fully black in colour with fuscous metallic blue-green or purple wings in sunlight. The broad-handed carpenter bee is among the largest Xylocopa known and among the largest bees of the world (though it is not the world's largest, that title belongs to another ...
Xylocopa sonorina, the valley carpenter bee or Hawaiian carpenter bee, [2] is a species of carpenter bee found from western Texas to northern California, [3] and the eastern Pacific islands. [4] Females are black while males are golden-brown with green eyes.
Carpenter bees are different from honey bees and can cause damage this spring and summer. Here’s what you need to know.
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Carpenter bees sometimes are mistaken for bumble bees, which have a similar appearance. A carpenter bee is about ¾ to 1-inch long and nest in excavated tunnels in wood.
X. micans is a large carpenter bee, ranging between 15 and 19 mm long and 8 and 9.5 mm wide. [11] The body of the bee is generally a metallic black and reflects light with blue or green tinges. [11] The bees have a flat clypeus and relatively short mandibles in addition to a set of lateral ocelli set below the top of the
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