
Photoreal · Capture
Carder Bumblebee
B♭4 on the minor comb. Its drum rings at 492.7 Hz.
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.

- 1493 Hz
- 2744 Hz
- 3808 Hz
- 4990 Hz
- 51039 Hz
- 61105 Hz
- 71250 Hz
- 81258 Hz
- 91310 Hz
- 101425 Hz
- 111494 Hz
- 121513 Hz
- 131542 Hz
- 141633 Hz
- 151706 Hz
- 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
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Macroscan - Brown-banded carder bumblebee (Bombus humilis)Converted, decimated, spherical harmonics removed, recentered and scaled. | macroscans | CC BY 4.0 |
Libraries
- MIT, BSD
- WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)



