Talk:Xylocopa aerata

A fact from Xylocopa aerata appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 October 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the golden-green carpenter bee (pictured) defends its nesting burrow by blocking the entrance with its abdomen?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/October.

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This is a good start. The next step would be to add information regarding their reproductive behavior, the composition of the nest, the sex ratio of the workers and how they interact with other species.VAD2015 (talk) 22:51, 10 September 2015 (UTC)Reply

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