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A carpenter bee with a shiny black abdomen hovering near a circular hole in weathered wood beside a curled wood shaving and a cross-section of tunnel brood cells on a light gray background

Shiny Abdomens and Circular Holes — How Much Do You Know About Carpenter Bees?

Bees & Wasps

Difficulty

Hard

Questions

26

Volts

3/q

They bore perfectly round holes, lay giant eggs, and carry mite pouches on their bodies. Carpenter bees chew through hardwood without eating a single splinter, rob nectar from flowers, and live in tunnels they build one cell at a time.

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