The Nesting of a Carpenter Bee

About the middle of August when the flowers are at their best in our mountain canyon (Beulah, New Mexico), and the wild bees and butterflies have a daily surfeit of nectar, this clever little carpenter goes to work to make a storehouse and to provide for the young of the next generation. Many bees and wasps make their nests by cutting out; burrows in trees and bushes, but few work as quickly and skillfully as Clisodon terminalis

XLVIII.—Contributions from the New Mexico Biological Station.—VII. Observations on bees, with descriptions of new genera and species

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