Nomada bee series

Lord Vetinari

Series of shots of a Nomada bee - ID'd Nomada marshamella female.
All 5dMk2/MPE-65.

Brian v.

Feeding on holly blossoms





Sitting on a Philadelphus leaf





Sitting on my hand

GOLDENORFE

very nice! got lucky finding one feeding.
not seen a red eye this year
phil

jpc

Great shots! What an unusual bee.

tomhooper

Excellent shots. Top quality but of course I have come to expect nothing less. You are the Master.

Lord Vetinari

tomhooper wrote: »

Excellent shots. Top quality but of course I have come to expect nothing less. You are the Master.

Thanks Thomas for the kind comments.
Not a master- still learning, just have more time to shoot than most photogs being retired.
Brian V.

Macro Monsters

Great series, I can not say I have seen one of these.

Lord Vetinari

Macro Monsters wrote: »

Great series, I can not say I have seen one of these.

Thanks MM
These nomada bees are cuckoo bees using the nests of miner bees - so you have to have miner bees around to find them.
Brian v.

PeterD-2009

As always, great shots Brian. I have taken a few of these bees but have been unable to identify them beyond their family name (Nomada sp). Could you help me with these? I shall post them if you can.
Thanks

Lord Vetinari

PeterD-2009 wrote: »

As always, great shots Brian. I have taken a few of these bees but have been unable to identify them beyond their family name (Nomada sp). Could you help me with these? I shall post them if you can.
Thanks

Thanks peter.
I'm pretty useless on bee IDs - the above Nomada has been ID'd as Nomada marshamella and the one below as Nomada fabriciana.
For Uk bees the wild about britain site is good for IDs but you do have to upload photos to their site - http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/forums/

Brian V.

PeterD-2009

Lord Vetinari wrote: »

Thanks peter.
I'm pretty useless on bee IDs - the above Nomada has been ID'd as Nomada marshamella and the one below as Nomada fabriciana.
For Uk bees the wild about britain site is good for IDs but you do have to upload photos to their site - http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/forums/

Brian V.

Thanks Brian. I have tried that group and they told me it is not posible for them to get at species level. Mind you one person did point me at a species but with the other comments coming in I thought it best to name the family only. Looking objectively though, there are at least two species in my collection which are obviously different.