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A female southern carpenter bee nectaring on white twinevine in the local cypress swamp. This big beautiful buzzer is considered a solitary bee and is a useful pollinator. It's the less common of the two Florida species of carpenter bees. The males look completely different!
(I'm getting a bit backlogged on bees so it may be buzzing around here for awhile.)
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Southern Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa micans) ♀
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Bob Peterson from North Palm Beach, Florida, Planet Earth!
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26° 51′ 46.69″ N, 80° 04′ 30.42″ W
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26.862969; -80.075118
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