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It's What's for Supper
(Not Beef)
It's What's for Supper
(Not Beef)
Act I - Scene I
(Mr. Bee enters front door)
Mr. Bee: Honey, I'm home, I got the pollen for supper.
(Mrs. Bee enters from Kitchen. Looks startled!)
Mrs. Bee: No, no Dear, I told you to get the yellow pollen.
(Click on the photo to see what Mr. Bee brought home)
(Eastern Carpenter Bee, Xylocopa virginica)
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(Click on the photo to see what Mr. Bee brought home)
(Eastern Carpenter Bee, Xylocopa virginica)General Range:
Nebraska south to eastern Texas and
east to Maine and central Florida.
They generally feed on flower nectar.
(Sometimes chewing through the flower base to reach the nectar).
The solitary female drills a hole in sound dead wood, i.e. posts, beams, fences.
Then she lays one egg and stocks the hole with a pellet of pollen and nectar.
Nebraska south to eastern Texas and
east to Maine and central Florida.
They generally feed on flower nectar.
(Sometimes chewing through the flower base to reach the nectar).
The solitary female drills a hole in sound dead wood, i.e. posts, beams, fences.
Then she lays one egg and stocks the hole with a pellet of pollen and nectar.
Troy
8 comments:
Hey, times are tough. Everyone's got to make do with purple pollen every once and a while. Great macro.
Well I'll Bee.
How intersting... A Carpenter Bee is one I've never heard of, but then, there's a whole lot of stuff I don't know...
Purple pollen, I wonder what flavor that is, maybe grape? Very informative post thanks for the info. I know carpenter bees well working in restoring old log homes we see them often and get to know them intimatly(lol)
Marvin; Exactly right.
Texican; thanks for stopping by.
Donald; Me too.
This was a fun post.
Troy
Stacy; I like to watch them hover outside their hole.
Great dialogue. :-) Great picture too.
That's an amazing close up!!! So beautiful, purple is a good color, he did well.
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