Giant resin bee

It got its name because the mother uses her big jaws to collect sticky tree resin, which she uses to seal her nest cells.

It does not drill its own holes. It moves into old holes in wood, often ones made by carpenter bees.

Each nest cell is built from bits of wood and mud, with one egg and a store of pollen inside.

It carries pollen on the hairy underside of its tummy, not on its legs.

It reached the United States in the early 1990s and was first seen in Europe near the French port of Marseille in 2008.