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The Curious Carpenter Bee

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The Curious Carpenter Bee

Postby sidd finch » Mon Jun 27, 2016 10:39 am

In my quest to try and capture some footage of honey bees looking for pollen. This carpenter bee kept flying around showing more interest in getting in the shot than collecting pollen.



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Re: The Curious Carpenter Bee

Postby Dave McElderry » Mon Jun 27, 2016 11:03 am

Enjoyed that Sidd. Those things are like a C-5. I don't know how they get off the ground. :TU:
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Re: The Curious Carpenter Bee

Postby Chuck Engels » Mon Jun 27, 2016 4:25 pm

I have a huge war with carpenter bees every year, they drive me absolutely crazy :pull:
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Re: The Curious Carpenter Bee

Postby Chuck Engels » Mon Jun 27, 2016 4:26 pm

The video didn't show the female drilling holes all over your deck, fence, and any other wood she can find. I have holes all over my railing, deck, pergola, fence, ......
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Re: The Curious Carpenter Bee

Postby RJ Johnston » Mon Jun 27, 2016 4:50 pm

What was the frame rate, and did you slow it down? Looked very smooth.
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Re: The Curious Carpenter Bee

Postby Steve Grisetti » Mon Jun 27, 2016 6:56 pm

Sidd, this is so perfectly shot, I at first thought it was a Pixar animation!
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Re: The Curious Carpenter Bee

Postby sidd finch » Mon Jun 27, 2016 10:42 pm

Thank you everyone. Pixar I wish... they are the cargo plane of the bee world. This was shot at 60fps and slowed down to 50%. I really like the part at about :40 where the bee looks like it is putting on the brakes midflight.

But to Chucks comment, I am thinking I need to re-title this as I checked out the difference between a carpenter bee and a bumble bee. Bumbles have hair on their backs.... hummm

Here is a picture I took with the flip camera a couple years back. It must be this bees great grandfather... or great grandmother.
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Re: The Curious Carpenter Bee

Postby _Paz_ » Tue Jun 28, 2016 10:03 am

Your bee is more likely a bumble bee, Sidd. Here in the American south, I've never seen a solid gold one. Bumbles have hairy bodies - yellow and black stripes on both thorax and abdomen.

Carpenter bees often have a yellow haired thorax with a black spot in the center and the abdomen is always hairless, shiny black. Carpenter bees can be without the yellow with black central spot thorax. I've seen them as totally dark solids - black, purple, bluish - probably depending on how the light hits them.

Putting on the brakes is cool! Love your closeup.
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Re: The Curious Carpenter Bee

Postby Chuck Engels » Tue Jun 28, 2016 10:50 am

One think I have learned about carpenter bees is that only the female can sting you. The males look menacing but are not dangerous, just annoying. The female is usually tunneling into wood laying eggs. My daughter said that I need to post video of me battling the carpenter bees with my electric tennis racket using the same music that Sidd used !! :hyst:
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Re: The Curious Carpenter Bee

Postby sidd finch » Tue Jun 28, 2016 10:57 am

Well if Wikipedia is to be trusted it is in fact a male carpenter bee (Xylocopa varipuncta). The reason for the hovering is that they are male bees waiting for female bees to fly by so they can mate..... Sounds like I have seen that behavior before in some humans I know. :fg:

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I would love to see that video Chuck. I will find the name of the piece so you can have it ready.

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Re: The Curious Carpenter Bee

Postby Chuck Engels » Wed Jun 29, 2016 11:56 am

Thanks Sidd, will hang on to it until next year in the late spring when I battle with the bees :)

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Re: The Curious Carpenter Bee

Postby momoffduty » Thu Jun 30, 2016 1:12 pm

Wow Sidd, great footage and beeutiful :mrgreen: The bee thought you were making an action video and not a food video. :fg:
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