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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
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

yes
your ID is good
… John S. Ascher, 12 August, 2007 - 3:28pm

 
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

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