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The green carpenter bee is the largest native bee in southern Australia. With a body length of 2 cm and a brilliant blue-green
colour, the species is very distinctive.The green carpenter bee has become extinct in Victoria and mainland South Australia,
probably as a result of land clearing and large wildfires. It now only occurs on Kangaroo island and a few locations near
Sydney. This dataset is a combination of GCB records on KI derived from a few different sources (data could be transferred into seperate projects if needed). The data has been collated in an independant database and will be updated into BDBSA periodically.
Sources include :
- Misc Opportune - post 2013 survey
- 2013 Community Survey with the aim to determine if the species is still present on Kangaroo Island and its conservation status and inform land and fire management planning and community.
- 2003 report
- 2003 report -Historic records . Some have been supplied with no date so (based on associated records) are loaded with date of 1 Jan 1970 but given a centuary accuracy.
REFERENCES:
McIlwee, A. and R. Leijs (2003). The distribution of the green carpenter bee Xylocopa (Lestis) aeratus in
relation to fire-history on Kangaroo Island: Report to Wildlife Conservation Fund. SA Department of
Environment and Heritage, Adelaide: 41pp.
Glatz R, Leijs R and Hogendoorn K (2015). Biology, distribution and conservation of Green carpenter bee (Xylocopa aeratus: Apidae) on Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Technical Report.
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