31. The carpenter bee is a solitary soul, and it will pollinate everything from tomatoes to cotton. 32. The subfamily Xylocopinae, which includes carpenter bees , are mostly solitary, though they tend to be gregarious. 33. Outdoors, problem pests are wasps and carpenter bees . 34. The flowers are visited by carpenter bees , after which the pollintated flowers turn into thin, straw-colored pods. 35. It is a mimic of " Xylocopa " carpenter bees , with males and females mimicking different species. 36. This characteristic allows the Carpenter Bees to break into the toughest flowers so they can pollinate them. 37. You are besieged by male carpenter bees looking for a female _ not very successfully, it seems. 38. The Eastern carpenter bees also have galae on their maxillae that are shaped like large, flat blades. 39. It is much easier to find wasps that gnaw on wood than carpenter bees that do this. 40. Carpenter bees do not eat wood.
