Beginner Gardening: My Carpenter bee, 0 by rentman

rentman wrote:
This is the saw dust she is chewing out of a perfect 1/2 " hole. The hole goes in 1" then turns right and is about 2" longer. This is what I found on Carpenter bees:
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Carpenter bees feed on pollen and nectar and are important pollinators of flowers and trees.The males are not long lived, and the female carpenter bee prepares the nest. Gallery construction is a time- and energy-consuming process, and the female will preferentially refurbish an old nest rather than excavate a new one. When constructing a new nest, the female uses her strong jaws (mandibles) to excavate a clean-cut, round nest entrance hole on the lateral surface of wood in an exposed or unexposed location. This hole is slightly less than 1/2-inch wide, approximately the diameter of her body. She bores into the wood perpendicular to the grain for one to two inches then makes a right angle turn and excavates along the wood grain for four to six inches to create a gallery (tunnel). She excavates the gallery at the rate of about one inch in six days.
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So I will let her do her thing and my garden will benefit from the offspring.