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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
Camera location52° 31′ 56.42″ N, 13° 23′ 14.4″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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current18:37, 6 July 2015Thumbnail for version as of 18:37, 6 July 20155,310 × 3,468 (5.71 MB)Slaunger (talk | contribs)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 2015Thumbnail for version as of 07:35, 6 July 20155,310 × 3,468 (5.56 MB)Rodrigo.Argenton (talk | contribs)bring back metadata and recroping, again...
21:05, 4 July 2015Thumbnail for version as of 21:05, 4 July 20155,638 × 3,576 (5.84 MB)Rodrigo.Argenton (talk | contribs)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 2015Thumbnail for version as of 20:46, 4 July 20155,079 × 3,490 (5.43 MB)Rodrigo.Argenton (talk | contribs)I don't care
20:37, 4 July 2015Thumbnail for version as of 20:37, 4 July 20155,638 × 3,576 (5.84 MB)Rodrigo.Argenton (talk | contribs)Reverted to version as of 07:50, 4 July 2015
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07:50, 4 July 2015Thumbnail for version as of 07:50, 4 July 20155,638 × 3,576 (5.84 MB)Rodrigo.Argenton (talk | contribs)fixing black areas, centralizing the main object.
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