Since photographing these bees, I've learned that it's very difficult to differentiate between the violet carpenter bee (Xylocopa violacea) & the splay-footed one (X. valga), hence the fuzzy ID here.
And I should point out that this is a macro stack of two shots, one for the in-focus antennae, & the other for everything else.
Mark McCaughrean
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