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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 Neoxylocopa (Xylocopa Subgenus Neoxylocopa) » Xylocopa griswoldi
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Black bee - Xylocopa griswoldi - female
Copyright © 2008 Penny Crispin

Black bee - Xylocopa griswoldi - Female
Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas, USA
March 18, 2008
Fairly large bees that look like Carpenter bees. Can someone verify an ID for them? They were photographed at the Hans Suter Wildlife Refuge.

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Black bee - Xylocopa griswoldi - female Black bee - Xylocopa griswoldi
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Contributed by Penny Crispin on 27 March, 2008 - 9:58pm
Last updated 17 July, 2008 - 7:02pm

Moved
Moved from Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees.
… Eric R. Eaton, 15 May, 2008 - 3:50pm login or register to post comments

ID confirmed - Xylocopa sp.
Most likely X. mexicanorum. A female (or two of them) anyway.
… Richard Vernier, 28 March, 2008 - 8:01am login or register to post comments

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