Technique: I'm not sure why it happens, but sometimes a bee's metabolism will drop and they become immobile. Sometimes it happens due to drops in temperature, or when the sun goes behind the clouds on a cool day. But that normally effects small solitary bees, not large ones like this bumblebee and it was at least 23C (73F) when I took this photo.

Tech Specs: Canon 70D (F13, 1/60, ISO 200) + a Canon EF-S 60mm macro lens with 25mm of extension + a diffused MT-24EX with head "A" set as the key and head "B" as the fill. This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held.

Not sure what order this is..

Hymenoptera?

Vichada, Colombia

Grande Isle

SONY DSC

Honey bee feeding on sugar/honey syrup on a camellia flower. Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene

Wasp queen. She did turn round to see what I was doing. Focus stacked using zerene

This is a tiny butterfly; about as small as my thumbnail. It is rare and imperiled in south Florida.

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Male sweat bee. Lasioglossum sp. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly Syritta pipiens on Japanese anemone flower. Focus stacked using zerene

Bury, UK

Honey bee resting on one of the borage leaves

Another Common Darter lets me get close :-) Loads of these around at present

Leaf Beetle

agrion

Sweat bee on potentilla flower. Natural light

Work of my friend, Kiki...

Hoverfly Syritta pipiens on Japanese anemone flower. Focus stacked using zerene

The zombie apocalypse has begun! (Bugun?). Head for the hills (not that it will do any good).

So, does anyone know what species this was before it was turned into a zombie?

(Just to clear up any confusion, this is a perfectly healthy fly. I just think it looks like a zombie)

Taken yesterday in the Elan valley. Having taken a landscape shot or two I returned to the car and this fly obligingly landed on a side window. I got nice and close.

I have cleaned the window since. HBBBT!

Another Ibizian bug

I was trying to get one in flight but couldn't quite manage it.

shot with Canon G9

I'm not sure what kind of eggs are these. A tachinid fly?

Tamron 90mm, handheld with flash.

It seems Tamron 90mm covers full frame Sony A7II sensor.

The hardest part of photographing this grasshopper was finding it in the first place! Very well camouflaged against these leaves.

manual focus, no tripod, moving subject, ... wasn't easy.. but I got it

Hawthorne shieldbug not doing very well with camouflage by sitting on a mollis azalea flower.

Eupeodes sp. hoverfly feeding on Euphorbia

MACRO