Miner bee resting on a lawn daisy

Lord Vetinari · April 28, 2010

Found this miner bee having a rest on a lawn daisy, Wonderfully coloured- it's a female Andrena haemorrhoa. managed to do 3 sets of shots for hand focus stacking but it flew off rather smartly when I tried for a closer shot.
5Dmk2/MPE-65/430Ex flash

Brian v.

rhondavid · April 28, 2010

Excellent! Particularly like the first one where you can see bits and pieces of pollen on it. Love the detail of the rest of the body too.

Paul Iddon · April 28, 2010

Quality detail Brian. It never ceases to amaze me the diversity in our British insects. Just wish I had more of them in the NW...

Paul.

paddler4 · April 28, 2010

all wonderful, but the petals make for a particularly nice composition in the third.

dlplumer · April 28, 2010

So good.

ecowarrior · April 28, 2010

That is pretty awesome!

GOLDENORFE · April 28, 2010

very good Brian, amazed you found one to get that close!
cant get within a foot of one here :cry
phil

Vidcanon · April 28, 2010

Amazing!!!!!!

Lord Vetinari · April 29, 2010

Thanks for the comments everybody appreciated.

Phil - Have a suspicion this one was knackered and just having a breather. It didn't appear to be feeding on the daisy at all - it just sat there only moving slightly until I did get too close.

Brian V.

Miner bee resting on a lawn daisy

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