Category Archives: Other Stuff

Nikon D3000, on guide or auto. Cropped, scaled, and sharpened with GIMP.

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Here is the featured photo, again. It’s so good because the bee landed in the same instant as I got the lavender in focus. Sheer luck!

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Now, this last one was taken yesterday, during a stint of trying out the manual focus for the first time – I actually managed to turn the ring and click the shutter before it flew off. Not easy. The sunlight washed out the blue a bit.

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As you can see there, I’ve experimented with adding a watermark.

I have five or six of these blue-banded bees flying about at the moment, of varying sizes. In the right light, one has dark aqua stripes.

Thanks for looking!   🙂

 

 

 

 

 

Bees & Bugs, Butterflies & Moths

Blue-banded bee

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honey bee on jasmine   (Nikon D3000)

 

Thanks for looking. Do have a good day.  🙂

 

 

Bees & Bugs

A single bee

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Other Stuff

Hairy Flower Wasp

Gosh, I keep seeing new creatures in my garden! This one was quite scary and I thought it was a hornet – not that I would know, never having seen a hornet. Nevertheless, I took photos of this huge black and gold wasp. The first few images were a bit shaky!

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the Campsomeris species is identified by its kidney-shaped eyes

Reading up on it later, I discovered it is a hairy flower wasp, a solitary fellow and a nectar drinker. They are not aggressive as they have no nest to defend. The female is designed to dig and the larvae feeds inside a paralysed host – usually a beetle grub.  Yuk.

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hairy flower wasp on clover blossom

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Nikon D3000, on auto

The fringes on its body remind me of those flapper dresses of the 1920s. I’ve seen pictures, I’m not that old!

Thanks for looking!  ❤

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