The female carpenter bee must burrow into wood and make holes to build nests. On the other hand, the male carpenter bee has the job of defending the territory where the female is building.

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The bee was a bilateral gynandromorph (Figure 1), with typical male anatomical characteristics — a long antenna, a delicate, pointed mandible, and a slender, naked hindleg — on its left side ...

The female bee then carries the young blister beetles to her nest, where they get their reward: Tasty bee food. It sounds like a daunting task, but one beetle species has managed to pull it off ...

The female bee chews a perfectly-round entrance, about the size of a dime, directly into wood. These entrances are typically an inch in depth, then make a turn at a 90-degree angle to excavate a ...

The team found the female bee living in a termites’ nest in a tree. The female bee had a wingspan of about 2.5 inches, according to the University of Sydney statement.

The female bee — the larger sex of the species Megachile pluto — isfour times the size of the typical European honeybee with a wingspan of 2.5 inches. It's the largest known bee on the planet.

“The sense of movement and intensity is shown at bee-level magnification and transforms what are little cactus bees into big competitors for a single female,' Rosamund 'Roz' Kidman Cox, Chair of ...