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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 Notoxylocopa (Xylocopa Subgenus Notoxylocopa) » Horse-fly Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa tabaniformis) » Xylocopa tabaniformis orpifex
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Beige and black bee on salvia - Xylocopa tabaniformis - male
Copyright © 2011 R. Berg

Beige and black bee on salvia - Xylocopa tabaniformis - Male
Alameda County, California, USA
March 29, 2011
This bee and one other that looked like it (possibly two others) maintained a continuous presence around a small stand of Salvia sp. as long as I observed them, flying over the plants and occasionally feeding (the bees, not I, flew and fed). They flew most of the time and made very brief visits to flowers. Afternoon, residential yard in a mixed commercial/residential area, urban; weather had been unseasonably cold and had quickly become unseasonably warm.

The commonly seen bumblebees in this area are yellow and black or all black. These bees' beige color was surprising.

was there at the same time.

These photos from the same session may or may not be of this individual:
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Contributed by R. Berg on 31 March, 2011 - 9:39am
Last updated 3 September, 2011 - 9:10am

Moved
Moved from Large Carpenter Bees.
… John S. Ascher, 12 July, 2011 - 9:18pm login or register to post comments

Moved; X. tabaniformis orpifex, i suspect
Moved from Bumble Bees.
… v belov, 31 March, 2011 - 9:42am login or register to post comments

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