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Under Attack: European Wool Carder Bee Vs. Male Valley Carpenter Bee

Meet the competitors. In this corner, meet Mr. Teddy Bear. He's a blond, green-eyed carpenter bee,...

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Posted on Monday, June 11, 2018 at 4:29 PM

Comments: 2

• Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Anthidium manicatum (2), battle (1), bodyslam (1), Digitalis purpurea (1), European wool carder bee (2), foxgloves (4), male Valley carpenter bee (1), Xylocopa varipuncta (1)

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Robbing the Nectar

It's the easy way to do it. A carpenter bee heads for a foxglove blossom and drills a hole in the...

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Posted on Thursday, May 7, 2015 at 10:01 AM

Comments: 0

• Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: carpenter bees (1), foxgloves (4), honey bee (2), robbing nectar (1)

Short Cut

We all take shortcuts. We look for the shortest line at the supermarket, we use keyboard...

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Posted on Thursday, September 18, 2014 at 6:02 PM

Comments: 2

• Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: carpenter bee (1), foxgloves (4), honey bee (2), nectar robbing (1), Valley carpenter bee (1)

Those Foxy Wool Carder Bees

Foxgloves, meet the European wool carder bee. European wool carder bee, meet the foxgloves. It's...

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Posted on Thursday, September 4, 2014 at 9:16 PM

Comments: 2

• Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Anthidium manicatum (2), European wool carder bee (2), foxgloves (4), honey bees (1)

 

 

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