Here are a few facts that I learned about carpenter bees: I then noticed a little pile of sawdust under the holes (they do not eat the wood). I had the most perfect round holes, about 1/2” diameter, in my porch ceilings and the railings of my deck.
my porch ceilings (which are made of cedar).Īt first I did not know what was happening.
They burrow into wood – dead wood, bamboo, and…. In fact, their rear ends are shiny.Ī carpenter bee gets its name from their nesting behavior. Their main difference is that they don’t have the yellow and black stripe rear ends that bumble bees have.
A carpenter bee is similar to a bumble bee.