The Bees are back in town

[Cobra]

And with friends too.

You can clearly see the proboscis on this one


039 by Cobra, on Flickr

Getting well and truly stuck in


014 by Cobra, on Flickr

Well I guess that's one way of looking at it


005 by Cobra, on Flickr

Drone fly(?) up to its neck in trough.


045 by Cobra, on Flickr

Finally the first one I've managed to catch on the buddleia this year


058 by Cobra, on Flickr

 

[Tintin124]

very nice Chris making great progress in Macro

 

[Rustydon]

Lovely shots Chris

Nice to see the bees (boys) are back in town too

Russ

 

[Cobra]

very nice Chris making great progress in Macro

Cheers Bryn, I've had to find something else to annoy since the zoo lock down

Lovely shots Chris

Nice to see the bees (boys) are back in town too

Russ

Thanks Russ

 

[Deleted member 34016]

Very nice set Chris ( that sturdy tripod serves you well)

Les

 

[Cobra]

Very nice set Chris

Cheers Les

 

[Deleted member 3428]

These are rather good Chris.

 

[Cobra]

These are rather good Chris.

Cheers Alby

 

[F1.2]

And with friends too.

You can clearly see the proboscis on this one


039 by Cobra, on Flickr

Getting well and truly stuck in


014 by Cobra, on Flickr

Well I guess that's one way of looking at it


005 by Cobra, on Flickr

Drone fly(?) up to its neck in trough.


045 by Cobra, on Flickr

Finally the first one I've managed to catch on the buddleia this year


058 by Cobra, on Flickr

Wow the butterfly image is a belter

 

[Cobra]

Wow the butterfly image is a belter

Thanks Allen

 

[footman]

Lovely images, the colours are also excellent.

 

[Cobra]

Lovely images, the colours are also excellent.

Thanks Laurence

 

[davholla]

Nice but the drone fly is a bee of some type - you can see that it has two wings joined together and does not have halteres.
It also has simple eyes which flies don't have.
Compare with this shot of a hoverfly, which does have halteres but no simple flies

IMG_5028Hoverflyv2 by davholla2002, on Flickr

Good photos though.

 

[fujilover]

nice, i mainly see the honey bee where i am and dont spot the bigger bumble types. can be great to photograph

 

[Cobra]

Nice but the drone fly is a bee of some type -

Cheers Dave
I wasn't 100% sure hence the (?)
Possibly one of the solitary's?

A couple of other shots, tbh it was the size of its arse that threw me.