Should you kill carpenter bees?

Instead of eradicating the shiny black wood-burrowing bees on our own back porch, we watch them, listen to them and otherwise enjoy them.

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Species of Large carpenter bees

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Valley carpenter bee (Xylocopa varipuncta)

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