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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Apoidea (clade Anthophila) - Bees » Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees (Apidae) » Carpenter and Small carpenter Bees (Xylocopinae) » Large Carpenter Bees (Xylocopa) » Subgenus Xylocopoides (Xylocopa Subgenus Xylocopoides) » Eastern Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa virginica) » Xylocopa virginica virginica
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Xylocopa virginica - Eastern Carpenter Bee? Confirm? - Xylocopa virginica - female
Copyright © 2007 Jo Ann Poe-McGavin

Xylocopa virginica - Eastern Carpenter Bee? Confirm? - Xylocopa virginica - Female
Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, USA
August 12, 2007
Size: not quite 1 inch(but big)
Xylocopa virginica - Eastern Carpenter Bee? No fuzzy butt

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Xylocopa virginica - Eastern Carpenter Bee? Confirm? - Xylocopa virginica - female Xylocopa virginica - Eastern Carpenter Bee? Confirm? - Xylocopa virginica - female
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Contributed by Jo Ann Poe-McGavin on 12 August, 2007 - 1:36pm
Last updated 23 July, 2011 - 12:32pm

Moved
Moved from Eastern Carpenter Bee.
… John S. Ascher, 23 July, 2011 - 12:33pm login or register to post comments

yes
your ID is good
… John S. Ascher, 12 August, 2007 - 3:28pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you!! I don't see a
Thank you!!

I don't see any males around now and the females are pretty aggressively feeding.
… Jo Ann Poe-McGavin, 12 August, 2007 - 4:00pm login or register to post comments

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