The thought occurred to me that perhaps I should have cropped those a bit more for the macro forum. Don't want to get into trouble. :-)
really like that first one. Beautiful creature well captured!
pfrancke wrote:
really like that first one. Beautiful creature well captured!
Thanks! That was my favorite today.When I was making church windows I would sometimes use red on a blue background. It would make an three dimensional optical illusion.
The reddish bee on green kind of gives a 3-D effect.
Three honeybees and two flies. I do not recognize the flies.
Nikonian72 wrote:
Three honeybees and two flies. I do not recognize the flies.
I don't think #2 is one of my honey bees.
This is a better photo. Perhaps a sweat bee?
Concerning image #2: From Bugguide:
Family Andrenidae (Mining Bees)
Subfamily Andreninae (Mining Bees)
The small fly is: Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Empidoidea » Dance Flies (Empididae) » Empidinae » Rhamphomyia » subgenus Megacyttarus (Rhamphomyia subgenus Megacyttarus)
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