Slender-scaped carpenter bee
Xylocopa tenuiscapa
The slender-scaped carpenter bee is a carpenter bee from South and Southeast Asia. Most bees only fly in the daytime, and so does this one, but in southern India it also flies on moonlit nights.
Lives in
South and Southeast Asia
What does it eat?
It drinks nectar and collects pollen from flowers, including trees that bloom at night.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Slender-scaped carpenter bee about 22 km/h (14 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
On moonlit nights it visits trees whose flowers open in the dark, and helps carry their pollen from flower to flower.
2
Male bees sit on open spots near nests and wait for a female to come by.
3
Carpenter bees get their name because they dig their nests in wood.
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Most asked questions about Slender-scaped carpenter bee
?Where does the slender-scaped carpenter bee live?
Only in South and Southeast Asia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Xylocopa tenuiscapa
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Xylocopa tenuiscapa (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Author - James Duncan Editor - Sir William Jardine Illustrator - Mr. Westwood. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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