Thursday 12 December 2013
She's blue
Found a visitor on the deck this afternoon not too flighty and stayed for a couple of shots before taking to the wing.
One of the native carpenter bees, solitary burrowing bees with quite a few species in the family. I am fairly sure this is the female (the male is more green in colour) Metallic Blue Carpenter Bee Xylocopa lestis areatus.
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Lovely photo - what beautiful colours. I might be wrong but seems a lot more colourful than the species we have over here :)
ReplyDeleteIt is I think the most striking or our native bees as the metallic shine is outstanding and the photo doesn't capture the full depth of colour. the are a few other blue native bees but none have the brightness of this species. Around the world there seems to be quite a few species of blue bees and i saw a photo of one from Spain which Imaybe the same as you have in England.
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