Her work is exactly the same as the Xylocopa's, on a smaller scale.

The habits and structure of the little green Ceratina ally it closely with Xylocopa.

Among the guild of wood-workers, the most powerful is the Carpenter-bee (Xylocopa violacea (Cf.

In the dead bough of a lilac-tree the dark-hued Xylocopa, the wood-boring bee, is busy tunnelling her gallery.

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

Xylocopa violacea (see Carpenter-bee).

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.