#slender scaped carpenter bee

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

A bee's work never stops-- in the case of the slender-scaped carpenter bee, it can literally go on all night! This species has been observed pollinating a flowering tree--Heterophragma quadriloculare-- that open opens its flowers at night; the relationship between bee and tree is exclusive, meaning that the slender-scaped carpenter bee is the primary pollinator of these trees.

(Image: A slender-scaped carpenter bee (Xylocopa tenuiscapa) by Stepanka Nemcova)

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