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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The Curious Carpenter Bee
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The Curious Carpenter BeeIn 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.
Sidd "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." ..... Ferris Bueller
Re: The Curious Carpenter BeeEnjoyed that Sidd. Those things are like a C-5. I don't know how they get off the ground.
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Re: The Curious Carpenter BeeI have a huge war with carpenter bees every year, they drive me absolutely crazy
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Re: The Curious Carpenter BeeThe 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 BeeWhat was the frame rate, and did you slow it down? Looked very smooth.
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Re: The Curious Carpenter BeeSidd, this is so perfectly shot, I at first thought it was a Pixar animation!
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Re: The Curious Carpenter BeeThank 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. You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post. "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." ..... Ferris Bueller
Re: The Curious Carpenter BeeYour 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. Lenovo W70l; 1.6 GHz, i7 quad core, Win 7, 64 bit, 16 gigs DDR-3 RAM; NVIDIA Quadro FX 2800; Two 1T 7200 internal drives; BluRay burner
Re: The Curious Carpenter BeeOne 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 !!
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Re: The Curious Carpenter BeeWell 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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylocopa_varipuncta I would love to see that video Chuck. I will find the name of the piece so you can have it ready. Sidd "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." ..... Ferris Bueller
Re: The Curious Carpenter BeeThanks 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 BeeWow Sidd, great footage and beeutiful The bee thought you were making an action video and not a food video.
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