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Carder Bumblebee, a still.

Photoreal7.2° N, 122.0° E

Carder Bumblebee

This is a brown-banded carder bumblebee, a small, fuzzy bumblebee of Europe's grassy meadows.

PlaygroundHow to play

Kind
Capture
Sound
Yes
Licenses
CC BY 4.0, MIT, BSD

How to play

Tap it to make it hover.

About it

This is a brown-banded carder bumblebee, a small, fuzzy bumblebee of Europe's grassy meadows. Carder bees make their nests on the ground in thick grass and cover them with bits of moss and grass that they comb into place.

Tap it and the fuzzy body shivers, the wings hum, and it hovers up with a slow, clumsy wobble before settling down. Bumblebees can shiver their flight muscles to warm up, so they can fly on cool mornings when many other bees stay home.

Sources and credits

WorkByLicense
Macroscan - Brown-banded carder bumblebee (Bombus humilis)Converted, decimated, spherical harmonics removed, recentered and scaled.macroscansCC BY 4.0

Libraries

MIT, BSD
WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)

Share it

This link opens it in the Playground. To put it on your own page, add the element and one script tag. Every option.

https://splashery.app/play/?toy=bumblebee<script type="module" src="https://splashery.app/play/src/element.js"></script> <splashery-toy toy="bumblebee"></splashery-toy>

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