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POST YOUR BEE SHOTS (any non-butterfly all pollinators are welcome - wasps, etc.)

 
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Sep 03, 2018 03:47 |  #121

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The (bumble)bees are almost gone but wasps in abundance:


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Like that last one immensely, very nice indeed!




  
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Sep 03, 2018 08:23 |  #122

Macroramphosis wrote in post #18699168 (external link)
Like that last one immensely, very nice indeed!

Thank you, I'll post a few more like that one in the next couple of days.




  
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Sep 03, 2018 16:45 |  #123

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Sep 04, 2018 03:06 |  #124

This one was playing peekaboo:


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Sep 04, 2018 06:46 |  #125

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Sep 04, 2018 12:53 |  #126

Landing on the Spaceship

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Sep 05, 2018 00:40 |  #127

When flying from flower to flower you think they are after nectar, but look what they are eating...


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Sep 05, 2018 05:49 |  #128

Here are a few of the hundreds of bees feeding on a Sedum. Which despite having tiny flowers must be loaded with nectar.

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There an awful lot of us taking bee shots! My excuse is that I haven't been able to get out to shoot anything more exciting.

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Sep 05, 2018 08:11 |  #129

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There an awful lot of us taking bee shots! My excuse is that I haven't been able to get out to shoot anything more exciting.

Becky

Great shots, Gents!




  
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Sep 05, 2018 12:12 |  #130

Daxiesmum wrote in post #18700688 (external link)
My excuse is that I haven't been able to get out to shoot anything more exciting.

Why should shooting bees not be exciting? I love it!


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Sep 05, 2018 12:13 |  #131


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Sep 06, 2018 12:19 |  #133

Bees are great!

Andrena sp.

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Bombus sp.

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Coelioxys sp. (Probably Coelioxys rufitarsis)

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Coelioxys rufitarsis

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Ceratina sp.

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Megachile sp

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Sep 06, 2018 12:26 |  #134

Superb series! And welcome to the forum. Hope to see more from you. Lee




  
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Sep 06, 2018 23:59 as a reply to  @ DLeeT's post |  #135

Thank you Lee! I'm glad to have stumbled onto this forum. Lot's of great macro photos here!


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