Helpful Posts: This little one was less than 1 cm long and perhaps 2mm wide, tiny compared to a honey bee or even something like a miner bee. To give you an idea, I was very near minimum working distance with my 100mm macro lens, a 36mm extension tube and a crop-sensor camera, and even so, I had to crop substantially to get these. Bright sunshine, but with diffused flash, 1/125, f/16. C&C welcome, as always.
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30th May 2015, 07:38 PM #1
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Two views of a tiny green sweat bee (?) on a daisy
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30th May 2015, 08:01 PM #2
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Re: Two views of a tiny green sweat bee (?) on a daisy
Plenty of good detail here, including part of the flower.
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30th May 2015, 10:29 PM #3
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Re: Two views of a tiny green sweat bee (?) on a daisy
Nice captures.
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31st May 2015, 01:30 AM #4
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Re: Two views of a tiny green sweat bee (?) on a daisy
Well done Dan.
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31st May 2015, 08:05 AM #5
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Re: Two views of a tiny green sweat bee (?) on a daisy
Did you shoot these while still alive, Dan? Just curious...I have a bee in my freezer and a nice flower to put it on but it has been raining buckets yesterday and couldn't do a photoshoot yet...looks like you had a good day...
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31st May 2015, 12:08 PM #6
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Re: Two views of a tiny green sweat bee (?) on a daisy
Thanks, all. Izzie--very much alive. Virtually all of my bug shots are taken of live bugs wherever I find them. This one was working her way repeatedly and fairly quickly counterclockwise among the yellow florets. Didn't give me much time to focus, and she made a small target, so I took about 25 shots to get these two.
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31st May 2015, 05:34 PM #7
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Re: Two views of a tiny green sweat bee (?) on a daisy
Great details and colors
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