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单词 carpenter bee
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Definition of carpenter bee in English:

carpenter bee

noun
  • A large solitary black bee with purplish wings, which nests in tunnels bored in dead wood or plant stems.

    Genus Xylocopa, family Apidae: several species

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Masonry or mortar bees are referred to as solitary bees, a class that also includes mining and carpenter bees.
    • Insects such as carpenter ants, carpenter bees, and termites may become a problem in foam-core panels.
    • Accompanying the astronauts on-board are an ant colony from Syracuse, NY, spiders from Melbourne, Australia, carpenter bees from Liechtenstein, Medaka fish from Japan, and silkworms from China.
    • The bed was ablaze with the yellow flowers, and here, large humming squadrons of shiny black carpenter bees would thrum from pre-dawn onwards.
    • The most detailed studies of facultative sociality in bees have focused on the large carpenter bee Xylocopa pubescens.
    • The female carpenter bee bores straight in - in this case upward - then makes a number of lateral bores 90 degrees perpendicular to the main bore, to lay her eggs in.
    • Solitary species such as cicada killers, carpenter bees, digger wasps and mud daubers use their stingers to subdue the insects and spiders upon which they prey.
    • This insect is the maggot of the eggs laid by sawflies or carpenter bees in the freshly-cut cane of the rose after pruning.
    • Pollinators of trees in the Brazil nut family include the female carpenter bee, above, shown as she is about to enter the flower of a sapucaia tree.
    • A wide assortment of animals - spiders, ants, silkworms, mealworms, carpenter bees, fish embryos and rats - was also on Columbia, mostly for student experiments.
    • There's the caulking and wood treatment that has to be done up near the roof in front; the upper front windows to be cleaned; the carpenter bee hole to be plugged.
 
 

Definition of carpenter bee in US English:

carpenter bee

nounˈkärpən(t)ər bē
  • A large solitary bee with purplish wings that nests in tunnels bored in dead wood or plant stems.

    Genus Xylocopa, family Apidae: several species

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The bed was ablaze with the yellow flowers, and here, large humming squadrons of shiny black carpenter bees would thrum from pre-dawn onwards.
    • Solitary species such as cicada killers, carpenter bees, digger wasps and mud daubers use their stingers to subdue the insects and spiders upon which they prey.
    • Accompanying the astronauts on-board are an ant colony from Syracuse, NY, spiders from Melbourne, Australia, carpenter bees from Liechtenstein, Medaka fish from Japan, and silkworms from China.
    • A wide assortment of animals - spiders, ants, silkworms, mealworms, carpenter bees, fish embryos and rats - was also on Columbia, mostly for student experiments.
    • The female carpenter bee bores straight in - in this case upward - then makes a number of lateral bores 90 degrees perpendicular to the main bore, to lay her eggs in.
    • Pollinators of trees in the Brazil nut family include the female carpenter bee, above, shown as she is about to enter the flower of a sapucaia tree.
    • There's the caulking and wood treatment that has to be done up near the roof in front; the upper front windows to be cleaned; the carpenter bee hole to be plugged.
    • Insects such as carpenter ants, carpenter bees, and termites may become a problem in foam-core panels.
    • The most detailed studies of facultative sociality in bees have focused on the large carpenter bee Xylocopa pubescens.
    • This insect is the maggot of the eggs laid by sawflies or carpenter bees in the freshly-cut cane of the rose after pruning.
    • Masonry or mortar bees are referred to as solitary bees, a class that also includes mining and carpenter bees.
 
 
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