When Linda Button's other half decided to become a beekeeper, he transformed their backyard. He cleared a space for the hives ...

While the carpenter and bumble bees were the most obvious visitors to the lupines, a closer look revealed a host of activity from small, blue butterflies, ants and ladybugs.

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He looks very like the bumble bee, but is a very different fellow indeed. He is a solitary bee, a regular hermit, while the bumble bee is a social character. View Full Article in Timesmachine » ...

If a carpenter bee is sprayed directly with WD-40, it will die. However, WD-40 is not effective as a repellent and leaves petroleum-based residue behind that is detrimental to beneficial insects.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) -While honey bees nest in trees and bumble bees nest in the ground, carpenter bees nest in wood. Most carpenter bees spend their time around dead wood.

Bees are some of the world's most vital insects as pollinators, and among the global bee population are carpenter bees. Unlike bumble bees or honeybees, however, the females of the species nest in ...

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.

Sometimes carpenter bees are mistaken for bumble bees since they are similar in size and color at first glance. The bellies of all carpenter bees, however, are hairless, smooth, and shiny black. Male ...

These diverse insects vary greatly in size, from the Sonoran Desert’s tiny Perdita minima, about the size of a crayon tip, to inch-long carpenter bees, which pollinate popular foods such as ...

These bees range in size from the tiny sweat bee, which you may mistake for an ant if you see it in a flower, to the eastern carpenter bee, which is about the size of a bumble bee.