Post Your Bee Shots (including wasps and other pollinators)

[Dennis]

These are magnificent. This level of photography is sheer wizardry as far as I am concerned.

Thank you, I have gradually built up the procedure using different equipment and lighting. I have been fortunate that the Paper Wasps are sleeping on a shrub close to ground, so I can set up the tripod and make a slow approach.

They have proven to be very tolerant subjects and I have really enjoyed observing and photographing them.

Dennis.

 

[TerryPinky]

He's just full of Pollen

 

[Ecc233]

A couple of hoverflies from this evening.

 

[Dennis]

Returning to our house this afternoon I spotted one segment of the paper Wasp nest lying on the ground so took it indoors for a bit of MP-E65 love at around 2.5:1.

These are crops showing the hexagonal egg chambers with a couple of domes visible in #1, taken from a 50 frame Stack using Helicon Focus SW.

Dennis.

 

[West Coast Birder]

Western Yellowjacket (Vespula pensylvanica). Angeles, National Forest, California.

Canon EOS 5D Mark IV | EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM | ƒ/16.0 | 100.0 mm | 1/320 | 800 ISO​