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A horned tiger wasp on a silver cockscomb (I think).
Sorry to post and run...limited time for checking posts at the moment but will catch up with all your lovely good stuff when I get back!
Best wishes!
You can spot them on the sand easier than in the water. In the surf at a beach in the Galapagos, we were stung by several Portuguese Man of War or Blue Bottle Jellyfish.
Using their Cobra Warrior call-sign 'Lynx', a quartet of Finnish Air Force Boeing
F/A-18C Hornets make a perfect line while taxying at RAF Waddington
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I use tea tree oil to repel honey bees. Regrettably it didn't repel the yellow jackets. I went with the flow and photographed the hummers and stingers. I didn't see any hummer getting stung.
This is about the 4th bee sting I have gotten since I have had the bees. The first one burned intensely for about 30 seconds and I had red swelling for about 2 days. The surprising thing was my lower back was pain free for the first time in maybe 10 years, the pain slowly came back; but for about 3 days no pain in the back.
A macro view of a small cork screw from a pocket knife. The frame represents a span of 7mm across.
Strobist/technical info:
The scene was illuminated by a single Nikon SB900 speedlight, CL, fired in Manual mode @ ½ power through a Neewer 24" soft box. A steady cube LED with an orange gel attached was placed at 4-o'clock.
The SB900 was triggered by PocketWizard Plus Xs.
Lens: Vega 11U 50mm/f2.8 attached to a bellows extended 136mm.
US Air Force Boeing F-15E Strike Eagle 98-0135/LN departs RAF Mildenhall for the short hop over to nearby Lakenheath as 'Wasp 53'
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General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon
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F-16D Block 42F
112th Fighter Squadron (112 FS) "Stingers"
Ohio Air National Guard
Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ USA
hornet stinger
5X Objective
+Raynox DCR 250 reversed
Nikon Bellows PB-6
105 pics, 35 μm
ISO 100, 1/320
2 Speedlight SB-800, w/diffuser
Evidently as nasty as they look (although they have a certain beauty too). These are mauve stingers - a jellyfish species found in the Mediterranean.
Still fewer jellies about that this time last year, but one is all you need!
Edit: Thank you all for the Explore, fellow Flickrites.
No post-processing done to photo, only cropped. Nikon NEF (RAW) files available. NPP Straight Photography at noPhotoShopping.com
Very small bee from Nomada family. About 0,5cm. Equipment used: 100mm 1:1 lens, 34mm of extensions, crop (30% cut off). Quality is not top notch due to f11 and very long shutter speed, but is enough to show some interesting detail of the bee.
A couple of a large swarm of mauve stinger jellyfish (Pelagia noctiluca) along Malta's west coast. These are one of the commonest Mediterranean jellies and deliver a painful sting. The photograph was taken at St. Paul's Bay in Bugibba.
Stinging nettles in Borrowdale, Cumbria
Soup all round: www.guardian.co.uk/news/2005/aug/11/guardianobituaries.ar...
I particularly like how the 'spiralling' of the vortices beside the fuel tanks has been captured in this one.
Shot at 1/250th.
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For those who grow weary of my bees...here is a critter that looks a bit like their wasp cousins but doesn't have a stinger! Look closely and you will see some other identifying characteristics of this clever mimic. They still make me pause, as even their movements mimic a wasp, but they really are harmless for us humans.
Kodak Portra 400 Olympus OM-1n 28/2.8
Street art graffiti under Digbeth's iconic railway arches, Birmingham, UK