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- Australian native Metallic Green Carpenter Bee - Xylocopa aeratus (female) - limited edition print A4 size
Australian native Metallic Green Carpenter Bee - Xylocopa aeratus (female) - limited edition print A4 size
The Metallic Green Carpenter Bee - Xylocopa aeratus is an Australian Native Bee. This is a female of the species.
Limited edition Giclee print, edition of 50, comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. A4 size - 297mm x 210mm. Printed using archival quality inks and 300gsm fine art paper.
The metallic green carpenter bee is a large bee, approximately 20mm long. The female is a dark metallic green, sometimes with a bluish or purplish sheen, and the male is a paler green with golden hairs on the thorax and abdomen, and they have dark wings. They are called carpenter bees because the female uses her strong jaws to burrow into soft wood such as Xanthorrhoea (grass tree) stems, in soft dead trunks of banksias, or the decaying wood of other native shrubs.
Image reproduced from an original watercolour painting by Cheryl Hodges. Colours may vary slightly from those on your screen.
Please note that photos of framed artworks are 'mockups' and are not necessarily to scale - use measurements above for sizing.