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PostPosted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 5:42 pm    Post subject: Carpenter Bee Reply with quote




2nd is out of focus, but still nice to see those iridescent colors it sports so nicely, looks like a black flash in flight ....

Note how that Sage flower presses the pollen on its back while she enjoys the nectar.

A special Sage it is :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvia_sclarea


PostPosted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 7:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Interesting, never seen a bee like that one before, all the ones here in NW England are yellow and black.


PostPosted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 9:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
These are interesting photos. I took some of the same bee and flower last year. Now we don't have that plant
and we do not have the bees either.
Taken with the Jupiter 11 (M39).
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 3:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I have also never seen that bee before- it is rather beautiful. Very nice first shot uddhava.


PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 4:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
iangreenhalgh1 wrote:
Interesting, never seen a bee like that one before, all the ones here in NW England are yellow and black.


Bees are usually light brown and black . The domestic wasp ( vespula vulgaris ) and the hornet are yellow and black and the bumble bee too.


PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 5:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
All the ones I see in the wild are yellow and black, so they will be wasps and bumble bees.


PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 6:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Read here about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_bee


PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 6:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
StillSanj wrote:
I have also never seen that bee before- it is rather beautiful. Very nice first shot uddhava.


Thank you. When I was living in NC we had a similar bee that was also called a carpenter bee. It would drill a very neat hole in the untreated wood of a log house I was building. I suppose it is the same bee as this.


PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 6:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thanks Klaus, you've inspired me to go bee spotting now! I see lots of bumble bees and wasps, but have never seen a black bee. I shall return with photo evidence of my observations! Smile


PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 7:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
uddhava wrote:
StillSanj wrote:
I have also never seen that bee before- it is rather beautiful. Very nice first shot uddhava.


Thank you. When I was living in NC we had a similar bee that was also called a carpenter bee. It would drill a very neat hole in the untreated wood of a log house I was building. I suppose it is the same bee as this.


It is a large group of bees actually, not all are pitch black!

iangreenhalgh1 wrote:
Thanks Klaus, you've inspired me to go bee spotting now! I see lots of bumble bees and wasps, but have never seen a black bee. I shall return with photo evidence of my observations! Smile


Wish you best of luck, very interesting species and very pretty! Only to be found on very specific plants though.
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