This guidebook provides materials for the identification of large carpenter bees of the genus Xylocopa Latreille, subgenus Neoxylocopa Michener, from the southw

A comprehensive, multi-author treatise on the social insects of the world, with some auxiliary attention to such adjacent topics as subsocial insects and social

Traces the life cycle of both the carpenter bee, that tunnels its nest out of wood, and the Monobia wasp, that adopts the carpenter bees' nests for its own.