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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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Bumblebee - Xylocopa virginica - female
Copyright © 2007 Tom Bentley

Bumblebee - Xylocopa virginica - Female
Smoky Mtn National Park, Tennessee, USA
April 28, 2007
Bombus species
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Contributed by Tom Bentley on 3 May, 2007 - 10:16pm
Last updated 3 September, 2011 - 10:11am

Moved
Moved from Eastern Carpenter Bee.
… John S. Ascher, 23 July, 2011 - 12:35pm login or register to post comments

Bombus griseocollis?
.
… Adalbert Goertz, 4 May, 2007 - 10:13am login or register to post comments

 
A Bombus with a shiny abdomen?
Try carpenter bees (Xylocopa) instead.
… Chuck Entz, 4 May, 2007 - 11:40am login or register to post comments

 
Agreed.
This is a great shot of a female (dark face, smaller eyes) Xylocopa virginica. Bumble bee females have the hind tibia and first segment of the hind tarsus grossly expanded and flattened into a 'pollen basket' with only a fringe of hairs along the edges of an otherwise bare leg (those segments, anyway). On this carpenter bee, you can see no expansion of those segments, but a dense brush of hairs instead.
… Eric R. Eaton, 4 May, 2007 - 3:18pm login or register to post comments

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