Canon EOS 7D • Canon EF 180mm f/3.5L Macro USM @180mm • 1/500 • f/8 • ISO 800
Canon EOS 7D • Canon EF 180mm f/3.5L Macro USM @180mm • 1/1600 • f/8 • ISO 800
Canon EOS 7D • Canon EF 180mm f/3.5L Macro USM @180mm • 1/400 • f/8 • ISO 800
LesterWareham Moderator  More info | Jul 22, 2018 01:37 | #1 Gear List
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DLeeT Senior Member  913 posts Likes: 6844 Joined Jul 2018 More info | Jul 22, 2018 06:57 | #2 Excellent, interesting shots. I have never seen a bee with prey like this. Lee
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LordV Macro Photo-Lord of the Year 2006  More info | Jul 23, 2018 00:22 | #3 Wonderful stuff Lester. http://www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/
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Jul 23, 2018 06:25 | #4 DLeeT wrote in post #18667890  Excellent, interesting shots. I have never seen a bee with prey like this. Lee It is a wasp and bee is the prey. It used to be quite rare but the population has increased massively since IIRC the late 80s. I photographed one a couple of years ago and the bee escaped (sorry for hijacking the thread).  Injured bee IMG_8439 by davholla2002, on FlickrTo Lester great photos, if bees were not so difficult to ID you might be able to identify the prey from the photo.
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stevendillonphoto Senior Member 995 posts Likes: 471 Joined Jun 2017 More info | Jul 25, 2018 11:34 | #5 Cool shots, Lester. Love behavior images like those. --Steven
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Jul 27, 2018 10:31 | #6 Thanks all for the replies. This magnificent wasp stocks its nest burrows exclusively with Honeybees, and this habit has led to it being known colloquially as the ‘Bee-Wolf’. [The burrows] .. have multiple chambers, each of which is provisioned with several bees. It is estimated that over 100 bees may be collected by a single female during the flight period, Gear List
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chrisa2007 Senior Member  More info | Well done on the in flight shot of them - that is hard. They are fascinating to watch aren't they. macro-photo.co.uk
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mr.white Goldmember  1,329 posts Likes: 853 Joined Jan 2010 Location: canada More info | Jul 28, 2018 21:09 | #8 Cool find, and great that you caught it in flight too. Nice work. Paul
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Jul 31, 2018 07:34 | #9 mr.white wrote in post #18672735 Cool find, and great that you caught it in flight too. Nice work. chrisa2007 wrote in post #18671949 Well done on the in flight shot of them - that is hard. They are fascinating to watch aren't they. Thanks both. Gear List
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Lame-Duck I have indeed had pine nuts  More info | Aug 01, 2018 15:28 | #10 Wow Lester...What an incredibly interesting and well shot series. That bee wolf is one impressive character. LD, or Mike
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Aug 03, 2018 11:02 | #11 Lame-Duck wrote in post #18675211 Wow Lester...What an incredibly interesting and well shot series. That bee wolf is one impressive character. Thanks Mike. Gear List
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