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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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Atlantic Coast Bumblebee - Xylocopa virginica - male
Copyright © 2005 bugguy91

Atlantic Coast Bumblebee - Xylocopa virginica - Male
Pennsylvania, USA
I tried to using http://pick4.pick.uga.edu/mp/20q?guide=Bumblebees to research the type of bumblebee (no offense bugguide!) and i found three entries: Asilidae sp UGA 3 (bee mimic), Bombus Affinis, Bombus Ashtoni (but my bee's head is bigger), and Xylocopa Virginica which is what I think my bee is.

I think this is the same bee as my other image again note the black spot on the thorax, there were a lot of these - they are BIG !

Anyone know exact species or sex ?

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Atlantic Coast Bumblebee - Xylocopa virginica - male Atlantic Coast Bumblebee - Xylocopa virginica - female
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Contributed by bugguy91 on 23 April, 2005 - 9:05pm
Last updated 22 July, 2011 - 3:14pm

Moved
Moved from Eastern Carpenter Bee.
… John S. Ascher, 22 July, 2011 - 3:14pm login or register to post comments

Tetralonia atriventris?
What is the plant it is investigating?
… Adalbert Goertz, 30 June, 2005 - 12:22am login or register to post comments

confused
It looks to us that this image and the next may be two pictures of the same animal, yet we are putting them in the guide in two different places. Can we double check them? They have the same spots and same legs and even appear to have the same wing venation. What if we assume they are of the same animal, what one species would they both be then?
… john and jane balaban, 24 April, 2005 - 10:34am login or register to post comments

 
Well,
we'll have to wait for Eric. Honestly these two species usually confuse the heck out of me!
… Lynette Elliott, 24 April, 2005 - 10:49am login or register to post comments

moved
moved to guide page.
… Lynette Elliott, 24 April, 2005 - 8:08am login or register to post comments

how do you tell that it is ma
how do you tell that it is male ? :-)
… bugguy91, 23 April, 2005 - 10:36pm login or register to post comments

Male carpenter bee.
Nice portrait of a male Xylocopa virginica, as evidenced by the bare, yellow face and bulbous eyes. Yes, they ARE big:-)
… Eric R. Eaton, 23 April, 2005 - 10:08pm login or register to post comments

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