Eastern Carpenter Bee - HD Mini-Documentary

Transcript: "The Eastern Carpenter Bee is often confused with a bumblebee, but has a shiny black abdomen, as opposed to the fuzzy abdomen of the bumblebee. There are over 500 species of carpenter bee around the world and this is the most common one in the eastern United States.

The female is the workhorse of the relationship. She makes a nest by tunneling into wood. Unlike termites, the bees do not eat the wood. They discard the bits or use them to make walls in their nests.

The nest is used as a nursery for the young and a place to store pollen. The female carpenter bee spends her time building the nest, collecting pollen for her brood and laying eggs.

Meanwhile, the male feeds himself and spends time hovering in his territory and protecting it from other males.

These bees are not aggressive and males do not even have stingers. The couple and their young will spend the winter in their nests and emerge in the spring.

They can be considered pests because they burrow into the soft, exposed wood of peoples homes. However, they have an important role in pollinating the food we eat and the beautiful flowers we enjoy."

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• wildlife
• nature
• animal
• birds
• eastern
• carpenter
• bee
• insect
• nest
• male
• female
• pollen
• stinger
• sting
• wood

[lethrneck4]

They suck but not for long in my yard..they get the grave if they bug me in 'my yard

[AgileHProductions]

@lethrneck4 Your yard sounds like a scary place. In my yard the bees frolic freely and the flowers rejoice!

[jadum1rollin1fresh]

@AgileHProductions these look nothing like the ones in my back yard there like the size of the my upper thumb and there black all black its like taking three of these and making them one

[AgileHProductions]

@jadum1rollin1fresh Sounds like a different bee.

[lethrneck4]

bees suck

[AgileHProductions]

@lethrneck4 You are wrong. This is a fact... Bees do not suck.

[banfflakelouise2]

Fascinating stuff! thanks for sharing.

[kclama]

Lovely Big Belly....

[AgileHProductions]

@69mrcrash Generally, these are pretty docile bees. Were you provoking it?

[ELEMENTSFAN666]

these bees are awesome

[07jimaz]

These things scare the crap out of me and I run everytime I see them, and today I saw a wasp about the size of a freaking small bird and that's huge for a wasp

[ergoplex]

@binturong1000 Because the males' sole job is to reproduce... they have no other purpose. Same with pretty much any type of bee. In a honey bee hive, the drones (males) are useless; they just sit around and eat, and then eventually go reproduce with a queen from another colony. And to everyone else on this page, bees are the best things ever!!! No life loving bee wants to sting you so don't be afraid.

[faceLoLROFL360]

SCARY ASS MOFOS thers alot of em at my house outside thats y i dont go outside

[riceandbeans643]

idgaf that they aren't aggressive. these bastards scare the shit out of me every time i see them

[binturong1000]

That is one large bee! Why don't males have stingers?

[lethrneck4]

My yars gets infested with yellow jackets who scare everyone and sting the kids..they get the spray