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Scientific name: Arthropoda: Insecta: Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopa virginica
Common Name: Large Carpenter Bee, King Bee, Virginia Carpenter Bee

Country: USA
State/District: MD
County: Prince Georges
Date (D-M-Y): 28 - 6 - 2001

Photographer: E. M. Barrows

Identifier: E. M. Barrows
Collector: not applicable
 Location: Patuxent Wildlife Research Center USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center

Keywords: A black bee black insect Patuxent Wildlife Research Center pollination pollinator yellow bee yellow insect USGS
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Figures 1-4. A Virginia Carpenter Bee consuming nectar from beebalm (Monarda sp.).


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