Apidae: Xylocopini
Xylocopa frontalis
Common name
carpenter bee
Body size
Known geographic distribution
Traits
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Can it sting? yes |
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Does it form a colony? no |
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Does it produce honey? no |
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Nest site: dead wood, dry tree branch, wood fence post or bamboo |
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How to manage it close to crops: installation of dead wood truncks and hollow bamboo canes, which are cut so that a nodal septum closed one end of the cane, to attract females. The bamboo cane can range from 16.1 cm to 30.6 cm in lenght and from 1.3 cm to 2.3 cm in diameter, with 2 cm to 3 cm in thickness. After the females have established in the trap nests, they can be transported to the crops |
