Now we have lots of insects in the garden, I am returning to last year's project of getting insects in flight. The female Hairy Footed Flower Bee in the first image is in a perfect position with diffuse background (green bin!!) but has not extended its tongue forwards for the characteristic pose of this species distinguishing it often from the Early Bumblebee in the second image. Various shutterspeeds from 1000th upwards - the Beefly in the penultimate image was a 6,400th of a second and still not completely stopped the wing movement. The final image used flash to freeze the motion.
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A great project and set of images Ann, I chased a bee around for an hour yesterday it never stopped once, so respect, such a difficult subject.
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