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