Hi, I am Millie Davenport, a horticulture Extension agent with the Clemson University Home & Garden Information Center. Today well talk about carpenter bees. Today we are in the South Carolina Botanical Garden and we are going to look at carpenter bee damage. That is one thing that you are often going to see in your landscape whether it be on your siding, or fences, trellises, anything made of wood in your landscape you are likely to see carpenter bees coming in to invade in April and May. Carpenter bees look very similar to bumble bees. With your bumble bees, they have more yellow on their abdomen. Now, however, the carpenter bee, one way youre definitely going to know it is a carpenter bee is that it has a very dark, shiny, black abdomen on the back section. The male, however, has a white head, so you can definitely tell which is male and which is female. The good news is that carpenter bees are not very aggressive. The male doesnt even have a stinger. He is very territorial however and he may even come up and buzz you. But you will definitely see the white on his face and you will know its a male and not to fear. The female however, she does have a stinger, but since they are solitary insects, they are not social like honey bees. They have no reason to really defend themselves and sting you unless you really mess with them a lot. So, thats the good news. However, the bad news is that they do cause a considerable amount of damage to wood. The female will actually create ...
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