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Xylocopa violacea
A violet carpenter bee female resting on a globe-thistle in bloom in a dry calcareous meadow. Diois, France.
This carpenter's bee digs galleries in the dead wood and leaves pollen as food for its larvae.
Created: August 31, 2016
© Anne SORBES
Photo size: 16.7 Mpixels (47.7 MB uncompressed) - 5000x3334 pixels (16.7x11.1 in / 42.3x28.2 cm at 300 ppi)
Photo keywords: Animal, Apidae, Apocrita, Azurite, Bee, Carpenter Bee, Chapias, Diois, Drôme, Echinops, Echinops ritro, Female, France, Globe Thistle, Hymenoptera, Insecta, Macro, Nature, Rhône-Alpes, Southern Globe-thistle, Thistle, Violet Carpenter Bee, Wild Bee, Wildlife, Xylocopa violacea
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