Subject: Please identify
Geographic location of the bug: Westville (Ed. Note: Presumably South Africa)
Date: 02/01/2019
Time: 06:22 AM EDT
Your letter to the bugman: Found this beautiful guy but not sure what it is?
How you want your letter signed: Thanks Tammy
Dear Tammy,
Is Westville in Canada, South Africa, the UK, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi, MIssouri, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma or Pennsylvania? Those are the choices Wikipedia provides. We are going to guess South Africa. We found matching images of the South African Carpenter Bee, Xylocopa flavorufa, on both Alamy and FlickR. It is also pictured on Discover Life and iNaturalist.
Yes South Africa. Thank you very much.
Never seen 1 before.