Yellow-headed carpenter
Xylocopa ruficornis
The yellow-headed carpenter is a bee from Sri Lanka. It belongs to the carpenter bees, bees that work with wood just like a real carpenter. They chew little tunnels in wood to make a home for their babies.
Lives in
Sri Lanka, an island country south of India
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)
Yellow-headed carpenter 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 for their nests.
2
It lives on Sri Lanka, a warm island in the Indian Ocean.
3
Like all bees, it has six legs and four wings.
you asked
Most asked questions about Yellow-headed carpenter
?Why is it called a carpenter bee?
Because carpenter bees chew tunnels into wood to build their nests.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Xylocopa ruficornis
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Xylocopa ruficornis (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 Yercaud-elango. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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