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With their glossy black abdomens and bright yellow waistcoats, the 24mm Great Carpenter Bees are the largest bees in Australia!
This beautiful photograph kindly contributed by Peter O.

Carpenter bees cut nest burrows in soft timber such as dead limbs of the mango tree.
Photograph by Aussie Bee

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