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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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Bumble Bee - Xylocopa virginica - male
Copyright © 2008 Shelly Cox

Bumble Bee - Xylocopa virginica - Male
Savannah, Andrew County, Missouri, USA
June 5, 2008
Nectaring on Columbine.
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Contributed by Shelly Cox on 16 June, 2008 - 11:02pm
Last updated 23 July, 2011 - 12:31pm

Moved
Moved from Eastern Carpenter Bee.
… John S. Ascher, 23 July, 2011 - 12:31pm login or register to post comments

Cropping, please
I almost frassed it because the bee appears so small and because we have many images of this species; but it would look a lot better if you cropped it to just the flower and the bee so the insect would be more visible.
It is an interesting picture because the bee is taking a shortcut and robbing nectar from the nectary; something that carpenter bees do often.
Update three days later: I went ahead and crop it for you.
… Beatriz Moisset, 24 July, 2010 - 4:14pm login or register to post comments

Xylocopa virginica
carpenter bee male
… John S. Ascher, 28 June, 2008 - 11:52am login or register to post comments

 
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image to guide page.
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