Valley Carpenter Bee

Xylocopa sonorina

Scientific name

Xylocopa sonorina

Taxonomy

Animalia › Arthropoda › Insecta › Hymenoptera › Apidae › Xylocopa

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Biome

forest

Xylocopa sonorina , the valley carpenter bee or Hawaiian carpenter bee , is a species of carpenter bee found from western Texas to northern California, and the eastern Pacific islands. Females are black while males are golden-brown with green eyes.

Photo: Sam Droege, CC-BY, via iNaturalist

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