carpenter bee http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85020428 http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_7476 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_bee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Xylocopa https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Xylocopa https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1165550 QL568.A53 Carpenter bees are species in the genus Xylocopa of the subfamily Xylocopinae. The genus includes some 500 bees in 31 subgenera. The common name "carpenter bee" derives from their nesting behavior; nearly all species burrow into hard plant material such as dead wood or bamboo. Xylocopa carpenter bees