Very good images Ian, I don't think you can get much sharper than this.
Thanks for the comment (and all the others as well) These were shot on a used $35 snap shot camera, no adjustments at all. Amazing Japanese people. (Camera new I think cost $75.)
I must have taken hundreds of shots on these same flowers, but the bee refused to face the right direction, or else I couldn't get focus before he moved. Today I finally got him. Not perfect, but better.
Love #1 incredible detail & color. Hope you don't have a lot of them....
Just the one that I have seen, get one each year, no way of telling if its the same one, maybe I should tag him. Never seen him chewing at anything but he must to survive I guess.