Wesley_Nelson
Bee Pollination
This picture was taken this past weekend while I was doing yard work for one of my neighbors in porters neck. This image is of a Carpenter Bee ( Xylocopa Xylocopinae) pollinating tiny flowers on this tree. A few fun facts about the carpenter bee. Although most people thing that carpenter bees feed on wood at no time during their life do they actually consume any sort of wood. Another interesting thing about carpenter bees is that Males lack stingers and have no way of protecting themselves, instead they rely on their close coloration patter to the females to warn off predators. Carpenter Bees are generally considered to be solitary insects but in some cases are known to live in small colonies consisting mostly of females. The reason Carpenter Bees bear holes in wood is because they use the wood shavings to form breaks in their nests.
Carpenter bees are an extremely important species when it comes to pollination.
They feed primarily on the sector of plants and transport pollen from one plant to another. Some plants rely only on the carpenter be for pollination and will not exist without them. Overall the carpenter bee along with many other bee species are extremely important in our food chain and conduct the valuable ecosystem service of pollination
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Bee Pollination
This picture was taken this past weekend while I was doing yard work for one of my neighbors in porters neck. This image is of a Carpenter Bee ( Xylocopa Xylocopinae) pollinating tiny flowers on this tree. A few fun facts about the carpenter bee. Although most people thing that carpenter bees feed on wood at no time during their life do they actually consume any sort of wood. Another interesting thing about carpenter bees is that Males lack stingers and have no way of protecting themselves, instead they rely on their close coloration patter to the females to warn off predators. Carpenter Bees are generally considered to be solitary insects but in some cases are known to live in small colonies consisting mostly of females. The reason Carpenter Bees bear holes in wood is because they use the wood shavings to form breaks in their nests.
Carpenter bees are an extremely important species when it comes to pollination.
They feed primarily on the sector of plants and transport pollen from one plant to another. Some plants rely only on the carpenter be for pollination and will not exist without them. Overall the carpenter bee along with many other bee species are extremely important in our food chain and conduct the valuable ecosystem service of pollination
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