Bee-utiful!
Rick B.
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Interesting bee.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
> On 8/2/2013 5:27 PM, Chris Trask wrote:
> >> Right now every rain sage in the neighbourhood is in full bloom, as
> are
> >> Mexican Bird of Paradise and Yellow Bells, and yet not a single
> solitary bee
> >> is to be found. Last year you could hear them from a short distance,
> but
> >> now it's dead quiet all day long.
> >>
> > This morning I was happy to find a total of five bees around the
> flowers on my Texas Sage hedge. One was a large Carpenter Bee, two others
> were generic Honey Bees, and then there were a couple of small white bees.
> Those last ones became a bit of a curiosity as I had never noticed any
> before, so I followed them around with the E-500 and Quantaray 24-40/3.5.
> That's not the best lens to use for stalking insects, but I needed to give
> it a try just to see how well it would work. Out of a dozen or so photos,
> a couple came out well, and I was able to make this enlargement from one:
> >
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/64004640@N03/9423150689/
> >
> > It really surprised me when I saw the first photo that the thorax
> and head were a metallic green. Luckily, the Audobon guide for insects had
> a photo of a Virescent Metallic Green Bee (Agapostemon virescens) that
> looked awfully close, and by way of the white bands on the abdomen this one
> is a female.
> >
> > The Quantaray 24-40/3.5 works well for landscape and flower
> closeups, but it's not a good choice for stalking insects as you have to
> get much too close. I'll stick with a long telephoto from now on.
> >
> >
> > Chris
>
>
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