It's handsome, having apparently evolved to mimic the carpenter bee's striking yellow-on-black coloration.

There are five varieties of bees in Ceylon; these are all honey-makers, except the carpenter bee.

There are, indeed, mason bees, carpenter bees, and miner bees and wasps.

Carpenter bees, like furry, electric-blue bears, zigzagged among the flowers, growling fatly and busily.

So he went to the big poplar by the brook, where the Carpenter Bee lived.

I wondered if that one shade of blue really kept the carpenter bees from nesting.

No doubt, in some of the recorded cases of perforations, carpenter bees have been mistaken for humble bees.

The holes made by the humble bees and by the carpenter bees are usually quite different and easily distinguished.

"I'll ask the Carpenter Bee if he's building a house for her."

I stared up at my plaster ceiling, painted the color of the sky to keep the carpenter bees from nesting.

Carpenter bees posed a threat to the plaster casts of humans as they bored holes into the plaster for their nests.

Among the valley carpenter bees (Xylocopa varipuncta) of North America, the females are black and the males are yellow.

When Buster Bumblebee told Whiteface the Carpenter Bee, that he hated to work that honest artisan stared at his caller in astonishment.

The power of boring the most symmetrical tunnels in solid wood reaches its perfection in the large Virginian Carpenter bee (Xylocopa Virginica, Fig.

Carpenter bee (Xylocopa tranquebarica): 0.000063 lux This carpenter bee from the Western Ghats of southern India goes one better.

The carpenter bees (Xylocopa Virginica) of this region have the head very broad and square in front, and with no noticeable hair between the antennæ.