A contribution to Roda’s Critter Connection Challenge.
Violet Carpenter Bee on the Cretan endemic member of the Campanula family, Petromarula pinnata, which grows on walls especially in ruins such as this one at Aptera in Western Crete.
If you want to see this, the largest of European bees, better, here is some video on youtube:
Great pics.
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Lovely pics🌸❤️
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Thank you 🙂
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😊my pleasure as usual with ur beautiful flowers and post
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What phenomenal critter! It’s wings and color are gorgeous.
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They are lovely – and huge too. About 50% bigger than the biggest bumblebees we have in the UK. Apparently we do get the violet carpenter bee in the UK now, in the south of England.
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Cool! You can almost hear the bzzzzzzz
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Not surprised – they are noisy!
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Gorgeous
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Thank you 🙂 I really like them 🙂
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Great shot! Such a beautiful critter. Love bees.
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Thank you Dominique. I always look forward to seeing these carpenter bees when I visit the med. Seeing the first one always makes me smile – they are wonderful things:)
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Such a beautiful bee!
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Lovely pics but bees and wasps having me doing this strange hand flapping dance in an effort to get away 😀
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Oh how lovely – thank you Hannah 🙂
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Bumbles!!! Love them!!
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Wow! That’s really a huge bee! Love the violet wings! Do you know why it is so dark in appearance? 😊
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No idea. Was stunned by them the first time I saw one and now I so look forward to seeing them. They remind me of Crete which I love.
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I love Crete too but it’s been almost a decade since I was last there. 😊❤
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Me too! 2010.
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That blue! Gorgeous
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Hoping to go back!
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I love bees! That is quite something …. huge! Not so keen on wasps though, or moths for that matter. Love the pictures ❤️
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Thank you😄. I am not mad keen on wasps either but can tolerate them as long as they are not trapped and angry. Moths don’t bother me but do bother my wife. Moth caterpillars can be immensely damaging in the greenhouse though so I often hunt them by torchlight.
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Was that a giant bee or a cicada? 😳
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Definitely a bee. The only time I have ever seen a cicada was coincidentally just half a mile from where I took these pictures !😄
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best pictures, impressive
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