Insect Drill Holes in Decorticated Wood

These holes might have been made by carpenter bees. Instead of making a common nest, carpenter bees drill holes in wood and chew tunnels that contain 6-8 brood chambers for their young. The females place bee bread (pollen mixed with regurgitated nectar) in each chamber, they lay an egg on the food, and then they seal off the chamber. The larvae eat the bee bread, pupate, and eventually emerge as adult bees.

Habitat: Mixed forest

**I don't know why the wood was pink...maybe from fungus.