Carpenter bees
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- Identification guideBumble bee or eastern carpenter bee?Compare a furry abdomen with a shiny black one, then compare their nests.
- Field guideHow animals see in low lightScarce photons are the central problem: anatomy can admit more light, rods and photopigments capture it, reflective layers offer a second pass, and neural circuits combine signals across space or time while accepting blur and noise.