tropical carpenter bee
Xylocopa latipes
6.82902, 80.9876
Field Notes
Description:
The tropical carpenter bee is a very large, robust, solitary bee. It is shiny, fully black in colour with fuscous metallic blue-green or purple wings in sunlight. The tropical carpenter bee is probably the largest Xylocopa known and among the largest bees of the world . It has a loud and distinctive, low-pitched buzzing that can be heard as it flies between flowers or perches
Habitat:
It is widely dispersed throughout Southeast Asia. It often makes long deep tunnels in wooden rafters, fallen trees, telephone poles and the like, but is not found in living trees
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Xylocopa latipes
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PublishedMay 2, 2013
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