Observations on an unusual behaviour in the Carpenter Bee Xylocopa aestuans (Latreille, 1802) (Hymenoptera: Apidae) of the Western Ghats, India

• DOI: 10.11609/jott.o2271.1232-3
• Publication Date: 2013-04-05T07:12:51Z
• Authors: Sachin A. Punekar; Navneeth K.P. Kum...; Hari R. Bhat
• Keywords: Habit

The Carpenter Bee Xylocopa aestuans is a known pollen and nectar feeder. However, at Anshi National Park of Karnataka (India), the bee happens to be switching over facultative carnivorous habit as they are found feed on Red Tree Ants Oecophylla smaragdina. Such kind feeding must have existed which yet reported.