A violet carpenter bee enjoying some fragrant jasmine flowers.
This is an impressive looking black bumblebee that lumbers clumsily around the garden. It has beautiful, iridescent, violet colored wings and is about three times the size of a regular bumblebee!
Don't be afraid though. It may look scary, but this is a very non-aggressive bee. Pin It
5 comments:
yikes - those big bees make me run for the hills.
Oh we have them in our garden in Italy - they love the jasmine there too.
our juicy life
They're really harmless and fly pretty slow. You see them coming so you have time to get out of their way!
scintilla
I think they're really beautiful and have been trying to get a photo of one all summer.
Success!
Thank you for naming that bee for me. I see them often but had no clue what they were called.
They are like enormous flying fuzzy jewels.
spacedlaw
I didn't know what they were called for the first three years here. I would see them ever summer and always wondered what they were.
"flying fuzzy jewels" is a perfect description!
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