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Carder Bumblebee, a still.

Photoreal · Capture

Carder Bumblebee

B♭4 on the minor comb. Its drum rings at 492.7 Hz.

Turn it in the PlaygroundTap the picture to strike it.

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

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

Its note

Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 492.7 Hz, 96 cents sharp of B♭4, the nearest tine on the comb. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.

The sixteen ways Carder Bumblebee's drum can ring, lowest first.
  1. 1493 Hz
  2. 2744 Hz
  3. 3808 Hz
  4. 4990 Hz
  5. 51039 Hz
  6. 61105 Hz
  7. 71250 Hz
  8. 81258 Hz
  9. 91310 Hz
  10. 101425 Hz
  11. 111494 Hz
  12. 121513 Hz
  13. 131542 Hz
  14. 141633 Hz
  15. 151706 Hz
  16. 161743 Hz

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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