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I'm Bringing Home A Baby Bumblebee...

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Posted by Bruce Palla on July 15, 2009 at 11:58 PM
I'm Bringing Home A Baby Bumblebee...
In response to Kendall's excellent Lilly post, I give you one of the smallest bees I've ever seen.
Posted with nothing but a crop, still learning DOF on millimeter size objects!
C/C welcome
Hope everyone is having a good summer.
Posted by Kendall Hetrick on July 16, 2009 at 12:10 AM
Yes, this is a small one. We seem to be looking close at the world and shooting that way.
Posted by Philip Schwarz on July 16, 2009 at 10:37 AM
Nice catch. You did a good job of getting the entire fly in focus.
Posted by Ramamohan Pai on July 16, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Nice photo. These are Syrphid Flies and sometimes also called Hoverflies.
Posted by Bruce Palla on July 17, 2009 at 11:25 AM
Thanks for comments and to Ram for correcting the ID. I assumed black and yellow was a bee; guess I need to crack those field guides!