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Haven't posted photos for a while so here's one I shot this evening.
Any comment welcome.



Sigma 105 and SB800

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!

Excellent!

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

Steve

Actually they are not bees, not sure what they are, but the white stripes are actually blue, the flash has blown out the colour.

sure look like bees.

maybe rel can help out here

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

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.

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

Cheers
Judy

Gotta be quick round here

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

Judy

go stir em up a bit.

If you get stung they are bees

Thanks for the link Judy, very interesting reading.

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.

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.

nice capature, sort of cute

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.

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)

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

Interesting site. I now believe I have some sort of Sawfly + larvae getting around my place. Hmmm, what to do this arvo...

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.

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.

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.

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

Rel

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.

that explains why they look so much like bees
thanks rel.

Steve