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Wednesday 15 May 2013

A day in Spello....and an unidentified Bee

Caught a bus to the local station and then a train to Spello.... just a taster...






If anyone can identify this bee..... it was very very large!!


3 comments:

Stewart said...

Hi Tricia, it looks like Violet Carpenter Bee Xylocopa violacea that has a stripe of yellow pollen on its thorax. That will be from the plants that it pollinates...Google the bee, Its a big one I have seen in Hungary before...

Roy Norris said...

It could be the 'Carpenter Bee' Tricia.

Tricia Ryder said...

Thanks Stewart and Roy... I will google but it sound about right.

The bee was covered in pollen!

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