Meanings of carpenter bees in English

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

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

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

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.

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

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