Violet carpenter bee on a roughly plastered, white wall. Blue visible on wings. Think male.

#Xylocopa violacea #Entomology #CarpenterBee #Bee
Back from visiting family in Germany where spring was springing.

Tender Touch: A Solitary Blue-Black Bee's Sanctuary in the Tangerine-Pink Trumpet Vine

#Nature #Wildlife #Pollinator #Bee #CarpenterBee #Xylocopa #Macro #BugLife #Flower #TrumpetVine #CampsisRadicans #Botany #Ecology #Biodiversity #Pollination #NatureVideo #WildlifeVideo #NatureInMotion

INC-STEP on X: "Our partner institutions #INCSTEP together house >9.4K specimens belonging to 36 of the 38 recognised species in our territory! 🌍 The top species are B. terrestris 🥇 and pascuorum 🥈, with >2,000 specimens each! However, flavidus and gerstaeckeri are absent from our coll. 🫙 https://t.co/Xu8NQGxn9l" / X Our partner institutions #INCSTEP together house >9.4K specimens belonging to 36 of the 38 recognised species in our territory! 🌍 The top species are B. terrestris 🥇 and pascuorum 🥈, with >2,000 specimens each! However, flavidus and gerstaeckeri are absent from our coll. 🫙 https://t.co/Xu8NQGxn9l

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Check them below!🔗 And do not forget to share! 🩷

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#Eristalinae x.com/INCSTEP_EU/s...
#Hesperiidae x.com/INCSTEP_EU/s...
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(PDF) Biologia di Xylocopa (Xylocopa) violacea (Linnè, 1758) (Hymenoptera: Apidae): storia naturale del nido dopo il suo completamento. PDF | - See also these papers: Sexual & Nest... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

#Biologia e #Ecologia dell' #ape #carpentiera gigante #europea

in ambiente #mediterraneo (#Campania)

#Xylocopa violacea (#Hymenoptera: #Apidae):

storia naturale del #nido dopo il suo completamento.

Dec.2006

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Eine sehr große schwarze Biene steckt ihren Rüssel in die Röhre einer blassvioletten Lippenblüte; die Flügel der Biene glänzen schwarz-violett in der Sonne, ihr ganzer Rücken sieht aus wie mit Mehl bestäubt; weitere Blüten und Tragblätter sind am oberen Bildrand zu sehen

Wildbienen sind meistens klein und dunkel gefärbt. Diese ist zwar auch dunkel, aber riesig: Eine Blauschwarze Holzbiene labt sich an unserem Muskatellersalbei. Ihr Rücken ist mit hellgelbem Pollen eingestaubt.

#Wildbiene #Holzbiene #Salviasclarea #Salvia […]

[Original post on mastodon.online]

A large fuzzy golden bee stands on a cluster of flowers, collecting pollen

#Xylocopa varipuncta. This is a male valley Carpenter bee, also called a teddy bear bee. It lacks a stinger, has bright green eyes, and is known to puncture flowers at the base to steal the nectar.
I love these fuzzy large guys!

#bugs #bees #teddybearbee #carpenterbee #insects #entomology 🪲 🐛 🐝

Blue carpenter bee with crazy blue fur on the thorax and 1st abdominal segment, with translucent dark-amber colored wing and black eyes , antennae, legs and posterior abdomen. The bee clings to white fabric.

Rich amber colored carpenter bee with a thick fuzzy coat of dark orange hair on the thorax and legs and a lighter fringe of golden hairs on the abdomen. The wings are a translucent dark amber color. It clings to fabric and is joined there by a small dark midge.

Celebrate World Bee Day! From half-a-world-away, two carpenter #bees from #TrusMadi in #Sabah #Malaysia #Borneo. Both were photographed at a light trap at night. Blue carpenter bee, #Xylocopa tumida, and another carpenter bee, Xylocopa sp., perhaps X. myops (?). So Fuzzy!

Xylocopa pollinating a Lamiaceae at the Botanical Garden in Quito

Happy world bee day 🐝🐝 #Biodiversity #Ecuador #nativebees #Xylocopa #JardinBotanicodeQuito

Valley Carpenter Bee visits the Apple Cactus
🌵🌼

#Xylocopasonorina #Xylocopa #bee #carpenterbee #cactus #Valleycarpenterbee
#cactusflower #california #pollinator #bees

Don't you remember #Xylocopa? Check our past Twitter post: x.com/INCSTEP_EU/s...

Also, get to know Lorena León, responsible of processing Xylocopa specimens at MNCN-CSIC: bsky.app/profile/incs...

Exciting news! 📢🆕

After all the hard work, we can finally report some preliminary but promising results from the #INCSTEP reference collection!

Starting today, we will be revealing some of them over the next few weeks. Let's get started with #Xylocopa! 📡🐝

#NameItToSaveIt

Always happy to see one of these boys! Photo from my pollinator garden on May 27, 2024. #Xylocopa #pollinators #invertebrates #nativebees

(PDF) Biology of Xylocopa (Xylocopa) violacea (Linnè, 1758) (Hymenoptera: Apidae): nest morphology. PDF | Fifty-nine nests of Xylocopa violacea in dried canes and 11 in poles were analysed. Two branched nests in a dry and rotten trunk were also... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on R...

#Biology of #Xylocopa (Xylocopa) #violacea (Linnè, 1758) (#Hymenoptera: #Apidae: #Xylocopini: #bees: #carpenterbees): #nest #morphology. ... www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Display on the Entomology Collection table that evening. Visitors were able to view specimens through two binoculars and inspect an entomological box containing several focal taxa. Source: our own

Photo of part of the Collection team (Marina González and Mercedes París) interacting with some of the visitors at some point during the evening. Source: our own

Last Saturday was Darwin's & Wallace's Night at @mncn-csic.bsky.social, and the #INCSTEP project couldn't miss out! 🙌

Visitors were taught how to identify Iberian #Xylocopa species, informed about the project's aims and warned about the importance of NHCs for pollinator conservation 🐝🛡️🏛️

I caught a male eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica) that was buzzing around! Pretty early for them to be out. This warm weather is screwing everything up. Normally Feb is cold as hell here. I released him after this. #Xylocopa #Bees #InverteFest2025 #USfauna #MSfauna #Mississippi

Primera #Xylocopa del año, en flores de Haba (Vicia faba)

L'abeille charpentière le #xylocopa de la famille des #hymenopteres est l'une des plus grosse abeille en France. Je la vois beaucoup sur mes sauges sclarées l'été et je peux la photographier régulièrement depuis des années grâce a cette plante.

A photo of a bee's front as it rests on the concrete handrail of a boardwalk. The Bee's black legs covered in light orangish brown hair like scales extend outwards from the bee's round face. The large eyes, pale yellow/green with large black spots surround the central portion of the face, the bottom of which is yellow, the top of which is black and has 3 oceli, primitive eyes, in an inverted triangular pattern and two antennae. The bee's bright yellow fuzzy body rises behind and around the head. The background is out of focus green foliage.

#MemoriesOfWarmerDays

Pretty sure this is the Eastern Carpenter #Bee, #Xylocopa virginica,

Grand Bay Wildlife Management Area, near Valdosta Georgia, July 2017.

#Pentax K-30, #Tamron 90mm #Macro

#Insects
#Inverts
#MacroPhotography

Lateral view photo of the male syntype specimen, along with a scale bar (5 mm) and its catalogue number (MNCN_Ent 408229). Source: Ent. Coll. MNCN-CSIC Author: P. Álvarez Fidalgo

Dorsal view photo of the same specimen, along with a scale bar (5 mm) and its catalogue number (MNCN_Ent 408229). Source: Ent. Coll. MNCN-CSIC Author: P. Álvarez Fidalgo

Photo of the specimen labels. Source: Ent. Coll. MNCN-CSIC Author: P. Álvarez Fidalgo

Another #TypeSpecimenTuesday! 🙌🏻

Today we have an infrasubespecific type! 🤔

This is a male #Xylocopa iris subsp. 'uclesiensis', which was used to describe a variety called 'gracilis'.
Complex, right? 😵‍💫

Hence, this would be called 'Xylocopa iris uclesiensis var. gracilis'... Try to say it quickly!

(PDF) World bibliography on Xylocopini tribe (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Apidae: Xylocopinae): Xylocopa Latreille, 1802; Lestis Lepeletier & Serville, 1828; Proxylocopa Hedicke, 1938. Edition n.1. PDF | ►❖◀ The attached pdf-file is the Edition II ❖ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256485308 ►✉◀ See also these papers: ➽X. violacea Sociality... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...

#World #bibliography on #Xylocopini tribe (#Insecta: #Hymenoptera: #Apoidea: #Apidae: Xylocopinae: #carpenterbees): #Xylocopa #Lestis #Proxylocopa.
ED. n.1... www.researchgate.net/publication/...
ED. n.2... www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Drop something yellllloooooow💛

Eastern Carpenter #Bee, #Xylocopa virginica, on goldenrod ( #Solidago)

A photo of the front of a very large black and yellow fuzzy bee feeding on the nectar of brilliant yellow golden rod flowers

A photo of the bee's side

I found this big-ass (around 25mm long, and thiccc) #bee this week, possibly the Eastern Carpenter Bee, #Xylocopa virginica, feeding on Golden Rod (#Solidago) growing in our yard.
#Fujifilm X-S10, #Laowa 65mm #Macro.
#Macrophotography
#Wildflowers
#Insects
#Hymenoptera