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RE: DEK Macro Photography: Is This a Bee?
Nice one! There are so many species of bees, hard to keep apart, especially the solitary bees.
I ran into some digging bees a while ago as well, see here.
Nice one! There are so many species of bees, hard to keep apart, especially the solitary bees.
I ran into some digging bees a while ago as well, see here.
Whoa, nice photos! I've seen these fly around, we call them "earth / ground bees" and they are what I'd refer to as the heavy duty version of the honey bee :D
Didn't know there was a variety of species with extra eyes?
All wasps and bees have three little extra eyes, as far as I know.
They are not proper focussing eyes, but they can detect differences in light and warn for danger from above.
Yes, I expected that they'd detect movement by change in light, but I wasn't aware that all bees have them? That's quite interesting, thank you!