It takes just a couple of hours for carpenter bees to chew a hole a few inches deep with their strong mandibles—insect talk for a jaw. Quite a bit, according to Harlow-Ellis. The females are rather ...

Carpenter bees are some of the largest native bees in the U.S. Their various species, all members of genus Xylocopa, can be found throughout the South, Southwestern and Eastern U.S. They use their ...