Usage examples (17)

• Along with bumble bee queens, carpenter bees (genus Xylocopa) are the largest native bees in the United States.
• Large, female bees, often carpenter bees (Xylocopa spp.), land on the hood to collect sterile pollen from the inside of the hood (Fig. 3).
• Some species, like the eastern Xylocopa virginica, occasionally take up residence in fence posts or structural timbers, especially redwood, and become a minor nuisance.
• But it is particularly from the character of the head that the amateur observer of the perforators may soon learn to distinguish between a Xylocopa and a Bombus as they...