Animal Taxonomy - Hymenoptera
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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!
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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.
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
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5X Objective
+Raynox DCR 250 reversed
Nikon Bellows PB-6
105 pics, 35 μm
ISO 100, 1/320
2 Speedlight SB-800, w/diffuser
Still fewer jellies about that this time last year, but one is all you need!
Edit: Thank you all for the Explore, fellow Flickrites.
Evidently as nasty as they look (although they have a certain beauty too). These are mauve stingers - a jellyfish species found in the Mediterranean.
A detail shot of the .30 caliber machine guns used for rearward protection in the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver operated by the Commemorative Air Force. _DSC2682_HDR
No post-processing done to photo, only cropped. Nikon NEF (RAW) files available. NPP Straight Photography at noPhotoShopping.com
Stinging nettles in Borrowdale, Cumbria
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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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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.
Kodak Portra 400 Olympus OM-1n 28/2.8
Street art graffiti under Digbeth's iconic railway arches, Birmingham, UK
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.
A few bluebottle stingers being washed up at Tura North Beach. These can give a nasty sting for swimmers.
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.
Last September, on the night of the solar eclipse, I was shooting down in a SoCal desert junkyard with some friends.
The clouds covered the moon right as the eclipse was happening, so I turned the camera towards the very dark Western sky and took this image while using a Streamlight Stinger flashlight.