The Metallic green carpenter bee is a very large Australian native, solitary bee. It vibrates it's body when pollinating flowers, which also makes it a very loud flyer!
This gorgeous greeting card is reproduced from original watercolour paintings by talented Australian artist Cheryl Hodges
The greeting card is 10 x 15cm and blank inside. It's paired with a neutral brown recycled envelope.
Text on reverse of card reads:
The metallic green carpenter bee is a large bee, approximately 20mm long. The female is a dark metallic green, sometimes with a bluish or purplish sheen, and the male is a paler green with golden hairs on the thorax and abdomen, and they have dark wings. They are called carpenter bees because the female uses her strong jaws to burrow into soft wood such as Xanthorrhoea (grass tree) stems, in soft dead trunks of banksias, or the decaying wood of other native shrubs.