Sunday, September 12, 2010

Photo of the Day...... Xylocopa virginica

Eastern Carpenter Bee.  They are big!  Only the female stings I've read.  Why does that seem right to me?  Like a Brit once said,  "Why does everything in the States bite, especially the women?"   I decided this ugly "sucka" needed soft focus.   Bumble Bees are beautiful.  Carpenter bees are BUFs like B52s.   Big and slow.

2 comments:

  1. Wonder how many will bee homeless when the decking is replaced next week or so. I also want to be around the first time one of them tries to drill into the new concrete composite siding. Twang!

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  2. Wow, amazing shot! He/she is an ugly little sucka.

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