These native pollinators can give your garden a boost. Carpenter bees are essential pollinators that are beneficial for your garden and the ecosystem. But when they live up to their name—by burrowing ...

Journal and field notes kept by Stevan J. Arnold on a field trip to collect carpenter bees in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico from 25 June to 12 September 1965. Specific localities ...

These nuisance bees are important pollinators. Known for drilling holes in the porch railings, swing, deck, furniture, siding, eaves, and other wooden features on your home, carpenter bees (Xylocopa ...

Photo credit: Matt Bertone, diagnostic entomologist with the NC State University Plant Disease and Insect Clinic. Used with permission. Carpenter bees get their name from their habit of drilling holes ...