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 Is this a hover fly? or a honey bee?
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| urseetaeler |
Posted on 05-07-2014 09:57
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 Member Location: Black Forest Lenzkirch Posts: 47 Joined: 24.06.14 |
I came across a picture of the attached animal which is supposed to be a honey bee. I wonder since there is only one pair of wings which would mean it is a Diptera. Can you please be so kind and identify the animal. If it is a Diptera shame on the ARD the German most popular TV. Bernhard urseetaeler attached the following image:  [61.63Kb] Edited by urseetaeler on 05-07-2014 10:00 |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 05-07-2014 10:18
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Looks like a chimera to me - a honeybee head & body with hoverfly wings PhotoShopped onto them
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| ValerioW |
Posted on 05-07-2014 11:56
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 Member Location: Padova - Italy Posts: 982 Joined: 01.06.12 |
Nice PP effect. Nothing real  |
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| urseetaeler |
Posted on 05-07-2014 12:46
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Member Location: Black Forest Lenzkirch Posts: 47 Joined: 24.06.14 |
They should be stinged repeatly for such fraud. They make PR without a proper bee in the title picture. Thank you for the much enlightning answers Bernhard Edited by urseetaeler on 05-07-2014 20:49 |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 05-07-2014 20:20
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
The saddest part of this is the level of work they went to to make a ridiculous non-insect, when actually they could have just used a photo of a real bee! :/
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| urseetaeler |
Posted on 05-07-2014 20:46
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Member Location: Black Forest Lenzkirch Posts: 47 Joined: 24.06.14 |
That in mind I have put a comment to ARD. For those interested in the film itself here the link. http://www.ardmed...tId=799280. Edited by urseetaeler on 05-07-2014 20:47 |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 06-07-2014 08:50
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19143 Joined: 21.07.04 |
Hi Chris I guess this is a case of ' Piltdown': probably not their fraud, but others. They simply bought it. Theo |
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