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Carpenter bees get their common name from their habit of boring into wood to make galleries for the rearing of young. These are worldwide in distribution with 7 species occurring in the United States. They don't have a hive as honey bees but are solitary bees.The female Carpenter bee can get into small areas, boring holes.

Adult body length is about 1/2 to 1 inch (12.5 to 25 mm). They are robust, resembling bumble bees, with the top surface of abdomen mostly bare and shiny. They are mostly black, but some species may be green, or purplish in color. The male has a yellow face with a white dot on their heads. The females face is black.

The most common carpenter bee species is the Xylocopa virginica and may be confused with the bumble bee. The carpenter bees and the bumble bees have distinct nesting behaviors.

This bee has a peculiar mark on it's face, not sure if that is part of his marking or if it just rubbed against something.

Nikon D7100

Tokina 100mm f/2.8 AT-X AF Pro D Macro

100mm - f5.6 - 1/640 - ISO 250

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Surface Politics. Hobart, Tasmania. by Tasmanian.Kris

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High contrast to push the stickers and tags forward. I’m not curating the message. I’m showing how the wall carries it.

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Pteridophyte (Surface) by eridanus

Pteridophyte (Surface)

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Surface by Santosh Shanmuga

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A Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) heads to the surface to take a breath in the crystal clear waters off Honolulu.

Oahu, Hawaii

Surface-running by The BOF

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A Cornish rarity, most usually seen in Devonport ('Guzz').

Tentatively identified as 'Trafalgar Class' - Attack submarine

Wisely running surfaced, in our busy fishing-grounds.

Traditionally, Destroyers & Submarines are "Boats".

Don't ask me why, its just the ways of Navies.

(And I had the wrong camera, yet again !)

www.royalnavy.mod.uk/the-equipment/submarines/attack-subm...

Surface Avatar by Samantha Cristoforetti

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ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti working on the ESA/DLR Surface Avatar experiments testing teleoperation of the Justin robot with a slick haptic interface (“force feedback”) and different degrees of robot autonomy.

ID: 270A1129

Credit: ESA/NASA

La surface by julie cherki

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Surface Detail by flashfix

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January 14, 2014

"Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen." - Anaxagoras

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Title provided by the Nard, because apparently my brained and creativity shut down this evening, so thanks and such to him. :)

Another day done and another day closer to the weekend, I really wish we could switch it up and have 5 days off and only work for two. If that was an option I'd have no issues working my 37.5 hours within a 48 hour period.

And that's my musing for the day.

Hope everyone has had a good one.

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surface patterns by Hugh Knechtel

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Under the surface by tagois

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surface tension by jenny downing

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Apollo 11 astronauts practicing lunar surface mobility at MSC by Project Apollo Archive

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Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong (rear) and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin E. Aldrin (front) practice lunar surface mobility at the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, on April 18, 1969. Aldrin has a camera attached to the chest area of his space suit. This method of attaching the camera is under study. The astronauts are in pressurized space suits.

NASA Photo 69-HC-409

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