Virginia Carpenter Bee

Xylocopa virginica virginica (Virginia Carpenter Bee) is a subspecies of Hymenoptera in the family Apidae. They visit flowers of butterfly-bush, devil's darning needles, bashful wakerobin, and Highbush blueberry.

EOL has data for 8 attributes, including:

Body symmetry
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/body_symmetry
- Definition: overall repetitive or reflective pattern in the body of one individual of this taxon. eg: bilateral symmetry, rotational symmetry, radial symmetry
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bilaterally symmetric
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324
- Definition: being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves
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is eaten by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002471
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Tyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus 1758) (Eastern Kingbird)
preyed upon by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002458
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Tyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus 1758) (Eastern Kingbird)
cellularity
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001992
- Definition: An organismal quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting cells. [ PATOC:GVG ]
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multicellular
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001993
- Definition: A cellularity quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting of more than one cell. [ PATOC:GVG ]
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developmental mode
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/DevelopmentalMode
- Definition: Broad recognized categories describing development, the process by which organisms grow and mature
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holometabolous
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/holometabolous
- Definition: Development of insects with complete metamorphosis which involves a pupal stage.
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eats
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002470
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Physostegia virginiana subsp. virginiana (obedient plant)
has host
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002454
- Attribution: From OBO Relation Ontology
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Pycnanthemum muticum (Michx.) Pers. (Clustered Mountain-Mint)
visits
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002618
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Pycnanthemum muticum (Michx.) Pers. (Clustered Mountain-Mint)
visits flowers of
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002622
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Oenothera biennis L. (common evening primrose)

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Virginia Carpenter Bee from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility

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Xylocopa virginica virginica (Linnaeus 1771)