Ponderings… Bees without wings

The other day, I had a rare day off work, and I was helping Ben at the kennel when I spied a small black lump balanced on the tip of a blade of grass. Curious, I bent to investigate and discovered a carpenter bee. At first, the bee looked old, its thorax completely free of the usual bee fuzz, and the more I looked at it, the stranger it looked until, finally, I realized why this old bee looked so strange: it didn't have any wings. The place where the bee should have had wings looked shriveled, a