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Eastern Carpenter Bee

Xylocopa virginica

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Texas.January 896, February 857, March 974, April 2,359, May 1,495, June 677, July 611, August 590, September 680, October 1,482, November 841, December 815.
United States110,374
Texas12,339
North Carolina10,624
Ohio8,257
Virginia7,532
New York6,513
Missouri6,026
Pennsylvania5,834
Maryland5,592
Georgia5,529

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Behavioral

  • EusocialLives in colonies with division of labor and cooperative brood careFrom its classification

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Practical

  • StingingCan deliver a painful stingFrom its classification

Group and habits

  • Animal pollinatorDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly pollinate flowers.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderAnts, Bees, Wasps, and Sawflies · Hymenoptera
FamilyHoney Bees, Bumble Bees, and Allies · Apidae
GenusLarge Carpenter Bees · Xylocopa

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