With my macro lens. I was trying like heck to get a good shot of those green eyes. This was the best I could do.
Subspecies Xylocopa virginica virginica in the family of Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees (“Apidae”) and the subfamily that’s Carpenter Bees (“Xylocopinae”).
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