1 Golden-Green Carpenter Bee at Acton, ACT
Identification history
| Xylocopa aeratus | 19 Mar 2018 | michael.batley | ||
| Xylocopa aeratus | 18 Mar 2018 | DerekC |
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Significant sighting
MichaelMulvaney noted:
19 Mar 2018
A rare species - we would appreciate any record of this bee - to try and work out the size of the population
User's notes
Honey Bee included for scale
5 comments
DerekC
wrote:
19 Mar 2018
Sorry I think I given the wrong plant species. I will check but think it must have been Acronychia.
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DerekC
wrote:
19 Mar 2018
On Saturday I saw 2 bees at the same time almost feeding on the same flower and after reading Fronds articular at https://friendsanbg.org.au/sites/default/files/pdf/News86Aug17.pdf the plant must have been the same Acronychia littoralis.
RogerF
wrote:
19 Mar 2018
This must be the most photographed insect at the moment! As various recorders have suggested there appears to be only one individual involved. The flowers belong to Acronychia littoralis from littoral rainforest in NE NSW
DerekC
wrote:
20 Mar 2018
After seeing 2 bees together at the same time on Saturday I went back today and can firstly confirm Acronychia littoralis, but after spending several hours watching I did not see a single one of these bees. They might be carving new holes but no sightings at all.
AlisonMilton
wrote:
21 Mar 2018
I agree with Derek, as reported earlier I also definitely saw two bees and thought perhaps glimpsed a third but could not be certain of the third.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.108637-35.276632
- Maps ANBG
- Places Acton, ACT
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- 17 Mar 2018 12:00 AM Recorded on
- DerekC Recorded by
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Significant ACT Most Wanted! Insects Bees (Hymenoptera, Apiformes) DerekC Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- Atherospermum moschatum Associated plant
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Female Gender
Species information
- Xylocopa (Lestis) aerata Scientific name
- Golden-Green Carpenter Bee Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Rare or uncommon native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 781.8m Recorded at altitude
- 297 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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