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Carpenter bee (Mamangava)

Xylocopa sp.

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Carpenter bee
Xylocopa sp.


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patty
patty 11 years ago

I see Rubens, the difference is that the mburucujás' flower has blue on its end, don´t you think? Is this a maracujá flower? The maracujá fruit is yellow and the mburucujá is orange and smaller. I have seen both; I have tasted both too (maracujá one of my favourites as I said before) and the one over here those have sort of a similar taste maybe with some variation of its sourness/sweetness... but I didn´t taste both togther which would allow more subjective precision =) Greetings

Juan DiTrani
Juan DiTrani 11 years ago

Hi Rubens. This is not a Bumblebee, is a Carpenter bee

rubens.luciano
Spotted by
rubens.luciano

Caçapava, Brazil

Spotted on Nov 4, 2012
Submitted on Nov 4, 2012

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