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Those are great!

Excellent shots. I too am allergic to bees and wasps. I got stung by a couple of mud wasps, found out that I was allergic after many other bites that never did anything. I ended up staying overnight because the reaction was so bad.

I've also been stung by other kind of bees and wasp's and all i got was a red spot where i got stung and it got a bit swolen, normal reaction i think... But to paper wasp's.... it seems i'm alergic, my arm got all red and then it went up to my left cheast area and it was hard to breath (but the fact that i only have 1 working lung also helped in the hard to breath part...)
It also seems that these wasp's are diferent then the "normal" bee stings, bee's leave the "spear" part and a "venom" sack behind punping it in and they die, but these guys can sting several times before they die.
I guess i just pushed my luck a bit 2 mutch this time... it wasn't the 1st time and i guess it wont be the last as well... hehehe (already got a nice "collection" of bites and sting scars... dog's, cat's, spider's, bee's, wasp's, snakes and some other small bugs...)

Great series! #8 is my favorite! It's both very colorful and sharp Great work!

As others have said, Excellent work, but I am most impressed with the Mantis at sunset shot, Very sharp work.