Collared carpenter bee
Xylocopa dejeanii
The collared carpenter bee is a bee from Asia. It belongs to the carpenter bees, a group of bees that are clever builders. Just like a real carpenter, they work with wood.
Lives in
Many countries in Asia
What does it eat?
It drinks sweet nectar from flowers and collects pollen, like other bees.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Collared carpenter bee about 22 km/h (14 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Carpenter bees get their name because they chew tunnels into wood to make their nests.
2
It is found in many different countries across Asia.
3
Like all bees, it has six legs and four wings.
you asked
Most asked questions about Collared carpenter bee
?Why is it called a carpenter bee?
Because carpenter bees chew tunnels into wood to build their nests.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Xylocopa dejeanii
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Xylocopa dejeanii (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Cheongweei Gan. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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