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Is this a hover fly? or a honey bee?
urseetaeler
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
Edited by urseetaeler on 05-07-2014 10:00
 
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ChrisR
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
Nice PP effect. Nothing real Wink
 
urseetaeler
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
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! :/
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urseetaeler
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
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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