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Carpenter bees are different from honey bees and can cause damage this spring and summer. Here’s what you need to know.
Their maxillae are sharp and wedge-shaped, allowing them to split the side of corolla tubes externally to access the nectar. Eastern carpenter bees also have galeae on their maxillae that are shaped like large, flat blades. Bees with sharp galeae can use these to further aid in penetrating the corolla tubes. [6]
A male Xylocopa virginica (Eastern Carpenter bee) on Redbud (Cercis canadensis). Bees can suffer serious effects from toxic chemicals in their environments. These include various synthetic chemicals, particularly insecticides, as well as a variety of naturally occurring chemicals from plants, such as ethanol resulting from the fermentation of organic materials.
A 2004 study from Johns Hopkins University found that, unless they’d received allergy treatments for bee stings, a significant percentage of those who’d had severe reactions to bee stings as ...
Microscope magnified image of a queen wasp's stinger, showing stylus and barbed lancets The left side of the image shows the ≈4 °C (7 °F) temperature increase (saturated red zone) caused by a bee sting after about 28 hours. A honey bee that is away from the hive foraging for nectar or pollen will rarely sting, except when stepped on or ...
Carpenter bees are sensitive to sound, specifically, the vibrations caused by sound waves. Placing a speaker near a suspected infestation and blasting loud music can deter bees from nesting there ...
Much of the time, you can live side-by-side with carpenter bees without needing to use pesticides. A little tolerance and understanding that the female carpenter bee is just doing her job as a mom ...
Carpenter bees can be timber pests, and cause substantial damage to wood if infestations go undetected for several years. [12] Two very different mating systems appear to be common in carpenter bees, and often this can be determined simply by examining specimens of the males of any given species. Species in which the males have large eyes are ...