First Macro Bee

This is the first Bee that I have been able to capture that turned out so so, I just finished the final modifications to my pop up flash defuser and went out to the back yard to try it out and the first subject landed a foot away and stayed for several shots, I am not sure but I think the final mods to my defuser worked, let me know, C&C always welcome.

Congrats on the great looking bee shot, Dennis!

I,d say it works great dennis.
think this is a bee imitating robber fly though!

Nice shot. Looks like the diffuser works well


I'm not 100% sure, but what you may have there is a robber fly bumblebee mimic. There are several types... some look less like this than others... but this might be one.

Edit. Looks like Denis beat me to it while I was trying to do some research.

LOL moose had to look it up also.
got one of these last summer,and it sure fooled me at first.then I found a pair mating!

nice Robber fly!! diffusion looking good

Wonderful capture. I'll disagree with the others- I think it's a hoverfly Volucella bombylans var plumata
Brian V.

LordV wrote in post #15885639
Wonderful capture. I'll disagree with the others- I think it's a hoverfly Volucella bombylans var plumata
Brian V.

Thats a mouthful Brian

Great shot by the way drhanson

Super shot. Can't confirm what the species is although my initial thoughts were also Hover/Drone fly

After looking at more images, I believe Brian is correct. Sorry for the misidentification

It's not the first, and likely won't be the last

Regardless, it still a very nice shot!

Super shot!

Thank you all for the comments and I guess I need to do some reserch before I post, looks like it is not my first be but my first hoverfly Volucella bombylans var plumata.

Wonderful capture.

oops! sorry dennis.brian is right of course,and a great capture.
haven't seen one of these yet.

Thank you Bas and denis for your comments.