DD #5

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Thanks to everyone who has commented on the photo! I don't have time to answer everyone, but there are some common threads...

Yes, honeybees have hair growing out of their eyes, probably so there is more surface area for collecting pollen. I use to think that it offered some protection for their peepers, but a lot of other bee species don't have hairy eyes.

No, the critter isn't dead. Although not obvious from the head shot she is soaked (body and wings) and with the sudden temperature drop after the storm was pretty lethargic. She was moving, forcing me to recompose several times and I had to delete several shots that were ruined by her antenna -bees constantly move them.

I took the shot with Canon's MPE-65mm macro lens and an MT-24EX macro twin flash for the light source (in the tech listed in the artists comments under the photo).