A carpenter ant colony hollowed out the old porch beam, forcing us to replace it before winter.

Last summer, carpenter bees made dozens of neat holes in the porch railing.

The carpenters' pencils, tucked into the side pocket of his tool belt, left precise marks on the oak before the first cut.

A solitary carpenter bee chewed neat, round holes in the old fence to make its nest.

A violet carpenter bee drilled a neat round hole in the garden fence while collecting pollen from the late summer flowers.

On warm afternoons, violet carpenter bees buzzed around the old fence, drilling neat round holes for their nests.