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Definition of Carpenter bee
1. Noun. Large solitary bee that lays eggs in tunnels bored into wood or plant stems.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carpenter Bee
Literary usage of Carpenter bee
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"members are the mason-wasp and carpenter-bee. ... The carpenter-bee, a species
of Xylocopa, is very destructive to timber by excavating a tunnel in which to ..."
2. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents, Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"THE LITTLE CARPENTER-BEE Teacher's Story AKE a dozen dead twigs from almost any
sumac or elder, split them lengthwise, and you will find in at least one or ..."
3. Ceylon: An Account of the Island Physical, Historical and Topographical by Sir James Emerson Tennent (1859)
"The carpenter bee. — The operations of one of the most interesting of the tribe,
the carpenter bee2, I have watched with admiration from the window of the ..."
4. Insect Architecture by James Rennie (1830)
"The violet carpenter-bee usually selects an up- r'ght piece of wood, into which
she bores obliquely ibr about an inch ; and then, changing the direction, ..."
5. The Natural History of Insects by James Rennie, John Obadiah Westwood (1833)
"... Labour—Remarkable /or Good-nature and Affection for her Young—Ingenuity in
overcoming Difficulties—"fhe Carpenter-Bee—The Mason-Bee—The Upholsterer-Bee. ..."
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