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Wikipedia: Xylocopa latipes, the tropical carpenter bee, is a species of carpenter bee widely dispersed throughout Southeast Asia. As its name suggests, this bee inhabits forests in warm tropical climates and constructs nests by burrowing into wood. It often makes long deep tunnels in wooden rafters, fallen trees, telephone poles and the like, but is not found in living trees.
The tropical carpenter bee is a very large, robust, solitary bee. It is shiny, fully black in color with fuscous metallic blue-green or purple wings in sunlight. The tropical carpenter bee is probably the largest Xylocopa known and among the largest bees of the world (though it is not the world's largest, that title belongs to another Southeast Asian bee, the Indonesian Megachile pluto). It has a loud and distinctive, low-pitched buzzing that can be heard as it flies between flowers or perches. In Urban areas, these bees can become attached to certain perches, returning to them day after day, even after several generations.
I dont normally shoot as low as f5 for macro. You can see how some sharpness has gone leaving a softer effect which fortunately I like now its edited :o)
...look at it large.
No trickery here, or gimmicks used. No frozen bee or dead one...no stacking, no extension tubes. Just a long macro lens on the camera, and a busy bumblebee.
I noticed a little bee hanging out on the side of my house and thought I would invite him to Flickr .
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