Eastern Carpenter Bee

Beautiful photos!

Those are Ocelli, are "primitive" eyes with low resolution, mostly for detecting light changes

Now if I could just find out what those three bumps forming a triangle on its head are for my brain could rest at ease - Ha!

I concur with your findings - Eastern Carpenter Bee it is!

I'll check it out, thanks for the tip.

Hi Greg, I think this is a Carpenter bee, probably Xylocopa virginica