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Horse-fly Carpenter Bee

Xylocopa tabaniformis

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28 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in California.January 602, February 521, March 543, April 673, May 654, June 481, July 412, August 420, September 533, October 544, November 700, December 539.
United States10,221
California6,623
Texas2,300
Utah494
Nevada354
Mexico318
Oregon215
Arizona137
Colorado27
Michoacan de Ocampo26

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

Sources

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Practise Horse-fly Carpenter Bee with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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