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

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. Carpenter bees resemble ...

As April winds down, get ready to look for the signs of the slow flying bumble bees that are really carpenter bees that will ...

Carpenter bees have “shiny, iridescent, hairless” abdomens that can reflect blue, black and purple colors, while bumblebees ...

On a bumblebee, the abdomen is densely furred with black and yellow. A carpenter bee’s abdomen is shiny black, with little or no fur. There are other, more technical differences, but for most ...

However, unlike the bumblebee, carpenter bees have a shiny black abdomen in contrast to the bumble bee's yellow, hairy ...

Carpenter bees get their name from their habit of drilling holes in dead wood. No big deal when they're digging away at a ...

Quite a number of folks have called me during the last week or two about large black bees (that resemble bumblebees) hovering around eaves, decks, and wood siding of your ...

The insects you’re seeing are carpenter bees, which are large bees with shiny black tails, according to the NC State Extension. They have powerful jaws that they use to burrow into wood ...

Carpenter bees have “shiny, iridescent, hairless” abdomens that can reflect blue, black and purple colors ... to ecosystems,” the company says. A bumblebee gathers pollen from lantana ...

the bumblebee. Bumblebees, which are sometimes clumsy, usually live in colonies of up to 200 or more, according to NC State Extension. But how can you tell them apart from carpenter bees?