We are blessed with all of the beauties in nature. This is a male Banded Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa caffra) in the first picture. The females are black, with bands of yellow hairs. The males patrol areas

Last week, I noticed a near perfectly drilled hole in the wood on my front porch. After a second glance, I realized that a large bee was inside the hole. Wood shavings littered the porch steps. I began