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

A little native stingless bee (Trigona sp.)

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Thought would post a couple from the past so the thread doesn't get to sleepy.

Got out for a few min's today

Some wasps making a nest on a Sacred bamboo plant in our back garden.

Cheers

Dennis

Photo from nardes's gallery.
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From today..

nardes wrote in post #19006897
Some wasps making a nest on a Sacred bamboo plant in our back garden.

Cheers

Dennis

Gallery photo (hosted):
posted by nardes originally in forum: Macro

Gallery photo (hosted):
posted by nardes originally in forum: Lens Sample Photo Archive

Shufu wrote in post #19006919
From today..

Great shots, Gents!

From the other days walk..

The weather here in Naples, Italy has been unusually warm this year, so I thought it was good time to harvest my Mason Bee cocoons. Normally I'd harvest them in November and store them in my fridge, but my fridge is so humid that mold builds up on the cocoons. The "down side" to harvesting late is that some of them have attempted to emerge already. So as I'm unwrapping the paper tubes bees spill out onto the table. The upside is I can usually get a photo or two before they get active. I also hand release a lot of them without taking photos cause they need to eat.

Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (2x to about 3.5x) + a diffused MT-26EX RT (E-TTL metering with -1/3 FEC). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Sharpen AI, Denoise AI, and Clarity in that order.

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Dalantech wrote in post #19016594
The weather here in Naples, Italy has been unusually warm this year, so I thought it was good time to harvest my Mason Bee cocoons. Normally I'd harvest them in November and store them in my fridge, but my fridge is so humid that mold builds up on the cocoons. The "down side" to harvesting late is that some of them have attempted to emerge already. So as I'm unwrapping the paper tubes bees spill out onto the table. The upside is I can usually get a photo or two before they get active. I also hand release a lot of them without taking photos cause they need to eat.

Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (2x to about 3.5x) + a diffused MT-26EX RT (E-TTL metering with -1/3 FEC). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Sharpen AI, Denoise AI, and Clarity in that order.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2itX​QLh Emerging Blue Mason Bee by John Kimbler, on Flickr

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2iui​EuM Emerging Blue Mason Bee II by John Kimbler, on Flickr

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2iwK​5gh Emerging Blue Mason Bee III by John Kimbler, on Flickr

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2ixB​Av8 Newborn Blue Mason Bee by John Kimbler, on Flickr

Wow - these are beautiful photos of these lovely insects.

Cheers

Dennis

My Mason Bees are still emerging, but I'm down to roughly the last hundred cocoons out of more than a thousand. I had so many cocoons this year that I gave about three hundred to a coworker so he could populate his new Mason Bee house.

Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (2x to 3x) + a diffused MT-26EX RT (E-TTL metering with -1/3 FEC). These are single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Sharpen AI, Denoise AI, and Clarity in that order.

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I'm pushing myself to document my Blue Mason Bees emerging before their done and I have to wait another year. But finding a composition that works at five times life size is tough, and I'm hitting the limits of what I can do in a single frame with the camera in my hand.

Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (5x) + a diffused MT-26EX RT (E-TTL metering with -1/3 FEC). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Sharpen AI, Denoise AI, and Clarity in that order.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2iAh​Zyo

Here are a couple of wider shots, showing Australian Native Stingless Bees swarming over the pollen pickings and the larger European honeybee (I think?).

Cheers

Dennis