File:Xylocopa virginica male face.jpg
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Summary
| Description | Giant Flying Eye - The male of Xylocopa virginica or Virginia Carpenter Bee. Any bee with this much "eye" is clearly doing something different visually. In this case the males are guarding nesting territories and the associated females and their young and defending them from other males. You will note this when you go out on your deck and a "bumblebee" starts flying around you, sorry, but it is just this male who has a difficult time differentiating sizes, but it is a magnificent motion detector. It is also completely harmless and has no sting, like all male Hymenoptera. While the females have stings they are pretty pathetic compared to social insects such as honeybees and paper wasps, and you actually have to grab one to make it sting you. Collected at the Pickering Creek Audubon Society BioBlitz this past weekend. |
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| Source | Xylocopa virginica, m, face, talbot, md_2015-05-17-16.49.24 ZS PMax |
| Author | USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab from Beltsville, Maryland, USA |
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This image is in the public domain in the United States because it only contains materials that originally came from the United States Geological Survey, an agency of the United States Department of the Interior. For more information, see the official USGS copyright policy.
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by at https://www.flickr.com/photos/54563451@N08/17827448255. It was reviewed on 4 January 2022 by jarekt and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the public domain. |
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| current | 18:37, 6 July 2015 | | 5,310 × 3,468 (5.71 MB) | Slaunger | Convert from AdobeRGB to the recommended sRGB color space using LightRoom 6.1 and Bawolffs exiftools script for mitigating the mediwiki metadata viewer bug |
| 07:35, 6 July 2015 |  | 5,310 × 3,468 (5.56 MB) | Rodrigo.Argenton | bring back metadata and recroping, again... | |
| 21:05, 4 July 2015 |  | 5,638 × 3,576 (5.84 MB) | Rodrigo.Argenton | actually I will not through away a good job just to not hurt a ego. Because who loses is the community... | |
| 20:46, 4 July 2015 |  | 5,079 × 3,490 (5.43 MB) | Rodrigo.Argenton | I don't care | |
| 20:37, 4 July 2015 |  | 5,638 × 3,576 (5.84 MB) | Rodrigo.Argenton | Reverted to version as of 07:50, 4 July 2015 | |
| 18:42, 4 July 2015 |  | 5,079 × 3,490 (5.43 MB) | Wilfredor | tilt | |
| 07:50, 4 July 2015 |  | 5,638 × 3,576 (5.84 MB) | Rodrigo.Argenton | fixing black areas, centralizing the main object. | |
| 20:49, 29 May 2015 |  | 5,079 × 3,490 (5.43 MB) | Wilfredor | Transferred from Flickr via Flickr2Commons |
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