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Photo#454030
Yellow-faced Bumble Bee or Something Else? - Xylocopa virginica - male

Yellow-faced Bumble Bee or Something Else? - Xylocopa virginica - Male
Sewanee, Franklin County, Tennessee, USA
September 11, 2010
Large, slow, and fairly easy to photograph, with a yellow plate between its eyes.

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Yellow-faced Bumble Bee or Something Else? - Xylocopa virginica - male Yellow-faced Bumble Bee or Something Else? - Xylocopa virginica - male

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Moved from ID Request.

male
eastern carpenter bee, Xylocopa virginica.

 
Thanks!
Thank you so much! The first of these I saw truly puzzled me, and I wondered if I had seen pollen. Now I know!