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This one let me get pretty close. The bees and butterflies are pretty much gone now, but I've got a few more shots from the last month...
Big bees and tiny bees (and some flies) like these flowers, which are only open for a little while during the day...
This little fly was actually in the lid of a collecting jar during a invertebrate survey on Saturday. Its a tiny little thing and it was briefly examined then released. I think it is one of the Sciapus flies but it needs to be properly identified, as it may be a new recording here it seems.
Insect macro photography reveals a lot of fascinating aspects of their behavior and evolution. One of the more interesting things I've seen is the tail of the hairstreak family of butterflies - " A hairstreak’s trickery happens when it’s perched, with wings folded. Its eyespots and antenna-like tails are designed to fool predators into thinking that the butterfly’s head is where its tail is. Hairstreaks even add a behavioral component – a nectaring hairstreak often moves its hindwings up and down, simulating the movement of twitchy antennae. A butterfly that loses a chunk of its hindwing can survive, but a butterfly that loses its head – not so much."
uwm.edu/field-station/gray-hairstreak-butterfly/
With 25 mm tube, Raynox DCR-150 snap-on macro lens