Carpenter bee vs. Honey bee: I think I'd choose to be a Honey bee Queen.... 

Social/Solitary
The honeybee works in a colony to take care of the young. The carpenter bee is a solitary bee.

The female carpenter bee has the ability to drill through wood and build a nest. A group of honeybees looks for a sheltered location such as a hollow tree to develop its colony.

In a honeybee colony there is a queen, who makes the eggs; a sterile female worker bee, who takes care of the young; and a male drone, who fertilizes the queen.

Because female carpenter bees take care of their own young, all adult females can reproduce.

A new honeybee queen will mate with a number of drones before flight. She will establish her new colony with a group of worker bees.

The adult female carpenter bee comes out of hibernation in spring to mate with the adult male. She then builds a nest in woody material to lay eggs.