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Oct 12, 2019 06:49:02   #
Beautiful! Excellent detail.
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Oct 5, 2019 06:43:34   #
Great captures! You certainly can tell they are curious!
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Sep 28, 2019 06:42:30   #
😁👍
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Sep 25, 2019 15:48:02   #
Great shot! Sharp detail!
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Sep 23, 2019 06:47:07   #
Excellent captures! Great detail.
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Sep 16, 2019 06:54:01   #
Excellent, sharp details. Amazing!
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Sep 11, 2019 15:47:11   #
Another carpenter bee in our flower garden. Love those eyes!


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Sep 11, 2019 14:20:04   #
relbugman wrote:
These are very nice photos. My comments are in no way critical of them, nor of what viewers find particularly interesting. I think these are carpenter bees, another, quite separate family of bees than bumblers. They gouge long tunnels in wood and fill them with a series of leaf-wrapped pollen with single eggs, separated by barriers of chewed wood and dried saliva. Then they leave to repeat the process again in a new, laboriously gouged tunnel. Interestingly, the oldest will be at the inner end of the tunnel, and will mature first. All the new-bees will wait patiently for a week or so, then start to wriggle around, and this will alert all to start to dig their way back out of the tunnel. Any who are late in maturing or have died will get chewed through in the process, and all the live ones will exit in a row. The eye patterns are formed by the reflections in the eye itself, not reflections of the flowers, a characteristic of this family of bees, like bare black abdomens, unlike bumbles. I think yours are males, they seem to have yellow patches below the antennae; females have black there.
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See my comment above, meant to reply to you. Thanks so much for correctly identifying these as carpenter bees!
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Sep 11, 2019 14:07:12   #
rick_n_wv wrote:
Nice! Love the flowers reflection in the eyes. That is really nice. Thanks for sharing.


I think you may be exactly right. We have carpenter bees that bore in the eaves of our roof. Just didn’t know they also ‘visit’ flowers. I did think they’re eyes looked like carpenter bee eyes. You explained why, thanks!
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Sep 11, 2019 11:56:30   #
Cropped photos of two bumblebees in our flower garden.


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Sep 3, 2019 06:39:24   #
Great capture!👍
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Aug 19, 2019 17:02:48   #
Beautiful set!
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Aug 14, 2019 20:58:06   #
Beautiful capture!
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Aug 12, 2019 10:57:54   #
Great, excellent color, detail and background!
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Aug 6, 2019 06:57:14   #
Beautiful capture, excellent framing and background!
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