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Wet Weekend! I managed to get the camera out for all of 2 mins this weekend in 'Alderley Edge' the one and only bee that I saw!
Hoverfly - Rhingia campestris - Highdown gdns. Natural light.
I only very rarely see these in my own garden but they were all over the place at Highdown
Patience and persistance this afternoon with these little fellahs.
They land, you approach with extreme caution, carefully settle to your knees, focus in and then...they're gone. Great fun following them though and satisfying when they finally just 'chill' with you. "I mean you no harm you most bizarre and beautiful creature of the insect world"!
Plenty more shots from the day sat in the edit queue including one of these in flight and some of a Brown Hawker. Exciting times (!)
I think this is a Common Red Darter by the way. Handheld macro, manual focus.
"Well folks, that's it for Dragonfly News this evening, now over to Sue with the weather...Sue"?
Later on on the same morning I was shooting frozen soap bubbles, I put some drops of sugar mixture on a camellia bush (as usual) to see if there were any bugs about. Around 12 noon some flies appeared and I measured the temperatures using an infra red thermo- sensor and a shade thermometer.
Shot focus stacked using zerene. Same fly I measured the temperature of.
Shade ground temperature -3.7'C
Shade air temperature + 3.2.C
Camellia leaf in sun + 12.C
Bluebottle fly on leaf in sun + 16.5.C
So the bluebottle flies were surprisingly warm
Lens: Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.5 APO DG macro (click to see all my photos with this lens)
ƒ/10.0 300.0mm 1/125s ISO 100