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Postby phillipb on Wed Feb 08, 2006 10:49 pm

Haven't posted photos for a while so here's one I shot this evening.
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Postby Alpha_7 on Wed Feb 08, 2006 10:50 pm

Gorgeous Phillip.

Actually in a weird way it reminds me of a Anne Geddes type shot, just replace the babies in Bee suits with real bees!

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Postby avkomp on Wed Feb 08, 2006 10:55 pm

looks different to all the recent bees we have been seeing here.
I kinda expect to see green backgrounds and yellow bees.

like this. well done

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Postby phillipb on Wed Feb 08, 2006 10:58 pm

Actually they are not bees, not sure what they are, but the white stripes are actually blue, the flash has blown out the colour.
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Postby avkomp on Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:02 pm

sure look like bees.

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Postby phillipb on Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:08 pm

This is the same little critter I took a while back.

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Postby Alpha_7 on Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:08 pm

These are the same insects in GreenCardies shots, and I believe for a while someone thought they were native bees, but they turne out to be flies..

But they look very bee like to me.
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Bees...

Postby neroli on Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:15 pm

Awesome capture!

I think they are bees - Blue-banded Bee - Amegilla sp

There is a cool site with bee and wasp species etc found here in Brissie that I've found helpful in identifying some of these critters. I found some wasps that I'd never seen before and discovered that they were Large Potter Wasps (and they were large!)

http://www.geocities.com/brisbane_wasps ... edBees.htm

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Bees...

Postby neroli on Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:17 pm

Gotta be quick round here :D

That second pic looks like a different type to me. The first one has very distinctive big green eyes.

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Postby avkomp on Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:19 pm

go stir em up a bit.

If you get stung they are bees
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Postby phillipb on Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:26 pm

Thanks for the link Judy, very interesting reading.
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Postby stubbsy on Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:28 pm

Phillip

Whatever they are this is a great capture. Nice and sharp and the background colour really complements the rest of the image very well.
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Postby phillipb on Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:28 pm

avkomp wrote:go stir em up a bit.

If you get stung they are bees


Mate, if I had known they were bees, I wouldn't have gotten so close. :shock:
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Postby kenny12 on Thu Feb 09, 2006 12:24 am

nice capature, sort of cute :P
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Postby greencardigan on Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:24 am

Great shot Phillip,

Was the SB-800 off or on camera?


Alpha_7 wrote:These are the same insects in GreenCardies shots, and I believe for a while someone thought they were native bees, but they turne out to be flies..

Nope... I have seen these in my yard but haven't got any pics of them yet. The ones I had previously were hover flies.
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Postby Alpha_7 on Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:26 am

greencardigan wrote:Great shot Phillip,

Was the SB-800 off or on camera?


Alpha_7 wrote:These are the same insects in GreenCardies shots, and I believe for a while someone thought they were native bees, but they turne out to be flies..

Nope... I have seen these in my yard but haven't got any pics of them yet. The ones I had previously were hover flies.


Just showing my ignorance, in my head they looked similar... (Sorry) :)
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Re: Bees...

Postby greencardigan on Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:35 am



Interesting site. I now believe I have some sort of Sawfly + larvae getting around my place. Hmmm, what to do this arvo...
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Postby phillipb on Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:48 am

SB-800 on camera.
There were onother 5 or 6 of these insects all fighting for the same spot on a little branch of a huge schrub.
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Postby greencardigan on Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:50 am

phillipb wrote:SB-800 on camera.
There were onother 5 or 6 of these insects all fighting for the same spot on a little branch of a huge schrub.

Strange. I've never seen them sit still long enough to get a decent shot. Just continually zipping around.
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Postby phillipb on Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:55 am

Actually, I was watering the garden when I noticed this group on the branch, I finished watering (probably 5 minutes), went inside, got the camera etc. (probably another 5 minutes) and they were still there. Must have been something special about that branch.
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Postby blacknstormy on Thu Feb 09, 2006 1:23 pm

Hey Phillip - Neroli was right, the first is a shot of the blue banded bee - I'm assuming that you took this shot late in the afternoon? These bees find a piece of vegetation they can lock their mandibles (umm... mouthparts) onto and settle in for the night - they are actually going to sleep :)

That second shot has me stumped though - no idea ... I know its a hymenopteran, wasp or bee, but other than that.... :?

Love the carpenter bee shot - very arty :)

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Postby phillipb on Thu Feb 09, 2006 3:20 pm

Thanks for the info Rel, that explains why they were in no hurry to go anywhere. Now that I know, next time I'll take more time to set up a tripod etc.
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Postby avkomp on Thu Feb 09, 2006 3:21 pm

that explains why they look so much like bees
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