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Insects of the day

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    😧That one gave me a fright. Good job they're small.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Anyone good with bee ID? i think this is a female blue mason but I despite taking photos from a few angles it just doesn't look very blue :/ 
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    wild edges said:
    Anyone good with bee ID?

    I think you are the best we have for that.
  • floraliesfloralies Posts: 2,718
    I read that the abdomen on a female has a blue metallic lustre, so unless you can turn one over........ :)
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I remembered I fished a bee out of the water butt the other day and checked the photo of that one. They look like the same bee but this one does have a hint of greeny-blue about it. The guide says older bees lose the colour and are balder which also seems to fit. We're right at the end of the season for them now so I guess that's what's happened.

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    This is the 20th bee species I've found in the garden now and I've got a few more possibles that I can't identify at the moment. I thought this was pretty good but apparently the record for any one site in the UK is held by a fairly normal suburban garden in Surrey that has recorded 133 of the 270ish species we get in the UK.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • IlikeplantsIlikeplants Posts: 894
    Is this bee sleeping in my sunflower? He didn’t move at all this morning.  The sunflower has some petals growing through the centre strangely too.

  • HalleSHalleS Posts: 105


    I saw this little guy on my marigolds yesterday. Perhaps a speckled bush cricket?

  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    Alan Clark2 in Liverpool said:
    I found this dead bumblebee in my garden so I decided to do some close-up work. This is from 45 stacked images to give plenty of depth-of-field.







    A great pic, @Alan Clark2 in Liverpool! Of course much easier to achieve photo stacking on a dead critter than on a live one. ;) Which software do you use for the stacking? I've used CombineZP for many years. It's free and does the job.
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