Canon T7. Sigma 105mm.
Maybe I'm just ignorant about bees, but why is the abdomen like twice the size of normal?
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Queen bees have long abdomen like this, but it would be rare if ever to see a queen pollinating like that. Once they start laying eggs they are too heavy to fly. I would 90% guess it's a type of bee that I doing know, 10% it's a queen bee
I'm also wondering this, I stared at the picture for a while trying to figure out if I was just looking at it weird
Now that you comment on that I thought it was maybe perspective, but all other shots show that looooong abdomen as well. Fingers crossed it means lots of honey for the hive.
Nice. I tried getting a bee pic yesterday when they were flying around my beer. But, none stayed still long enough to snap the photo.
They're really difficult as they move a lot. The flash makes the difference to freeze the action. Being in focus is the hardest, so you have to take a lot of pictures and pray, lol. This is the only one in focus out of eight successive attempts. Insect macro photography is like that.
Indeed. They really don't listen well when given directions 😉
I just stay still on a group of flowers, manually focused on, and wait until a nearby bee stops by.
Lots of patience.
Yep. And luck.
I want to pet him
I tried but they politely evade you all the time :)