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Carpenter bee
Common name for a genus of bees / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about large carpenter bees. For small bees sometimes referred to as "small carpenter bees", see Ceratina.
Carpenter bees are species in the genus Xylocopa of the subfamily Xylocopinae. The genus includes some 500 bees in 31 subgenera.[1] The common name "carpenter bee" derives from their nesting behavior; nearly all species burrow into hard plant material such as dead wood or bamboo. The main exceptions are species in the subgenus Proxylocopa, which dig nesting tunnels in suitable soil.
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Carpenter bees | |
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Foraging female X. micans and sounds emitted from a nest of X. pubescens | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Apidae |
Subfamily: | Xylocopinae |
Tribe: | Xylocopini |
Genus: | Xylocopa Latreille, 1802 |
Type species | |
Xylocopa violacea | |
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