1It's handsome, having apparently evolved to mimic the carpenter bee's striking yellow-on-black coloration.
2There are five varieties of bees in Ceylon; these are all honey-makers, except the carpenter bee.
3There are, indeed, mason bees, carpenter bees, and miner bees and wasps.
4Carpenter bees, like furry, electric-blue bears, zigzagged among the flowers, growling fatly and busily.
5So he went to the big poplar by the brook, where the Carpenter Bee lived.
6I wondered if that one shade of blue really kept the carpenter bees from nesting.
7No doubt, in some of the recorded cases of perforations, carpenter bees have been mistaken for humble bees.
8The holes made by the humble bees and by the carpenter bees are usually quite different and easily distinguished.
9"I'll ask the Carpenter Bee if he's building a house for her."
10I stared up at my plaster ceiling, painted the color of the sky to keep the carpenter bees from nesting.
11Carpenter bees posed a threat to the plaster casts of humans as they bored holes into the plaster for their nests.
12Among the valley carpenter bees (Xylocopa varipuncta) of North America, the females are black and the males are yellow.
13When Buster Bumblebee told Whiteface the Carpenter Bee, that he hated to work that honest artisan stared at his caller in astonishment.
14The power of boring the most symmetrical tunnels in solid wood reaches its perfection in the large Virginian Carpenter bee (Xylocopa Virginica, Fig.
15Carpenter bee (Xylocopa tranquebarica): 0.000063 lux This carpenter bee from the Western Ghats of southern India goes one better.
16The carpenter bees (Xylocopa Virginica) of this region have the head very broad and square in front, and with no noticeable hair between the antennæ.
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