More than 500 species of carpenter bees exist throughout the world and nearly all of them burrow into dead wood to nest and lay their eggs. They don’t actually eat the wood, but chew it up and ...

Jim Abrams offers insight on one of his favorite jobs as a game protector for the Division of Wildlife: placing and maintaining wood duck nesting boxes.

The female lays 10 to 12 dull-white eggs. Young wood ducks can safely exit nests up to 70 feet in the air. Thanks in part to bird lovers putting up suitable nest boxes for them, the wood duck ...