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| Keywords: Xylocopa virginica male face.jpg 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 a this male who has a difficult time differentiating sizes rather 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 https //www flickr com/photos/usgsbiml/17827448255/ Xylocopa virginica m face talbot md_2015-05-17-16 49 24 ZS PMax 2015-05-18 13 37 https //www flickr com/people/54563451 N08 USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab from Beltsville Maryland USA Assessments 1 52 31 56 418 N 13 23 14 394 E alt 54 1_source exif_heading cc0 Sam Droege http //flickr com/photos/54563451 N08/17827448255 2015-05-29 20 54 54 cc-by-2 0 Insects of Maryland Xylocopa virginica Files uploaded by The Photographer needing category checks Files uploaded by The Photographer from Flickr Featured pictures uploaded by User The Photographer Featured pictures of insects Featured pictures of Maryland Files by USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Laboratory | ||||
