flying objects

weaselnoze · May 03, 2006, 01:16:50 PM

shot these today

CRXDrew · May 03, 2006, 01:27:40 PM

nice, what camera/lense?

Caffeine · May 03, 2006, 01:43:32 PM

The top one, the wasp...they scrape up bits of wood to build their nests. If you look close at the wood, you can see the brown areas where the wasps have already scraped off the top layer of grey, weathered wood.

They are like little MacGuyver's: a little wood pulp, a little wasp spit...and voila! A nest!

12thmonkey · May 03, 2006, 02:02:28 PM

That fly picture is great!

i too am curious what you shot these with.

weaselnoze · May 03, 2006, 02:19:32 PM

i shot these with my d70s accompanied by a sigma 150mm f2.8 macro

12thmonkey · May 03, 2006, 03:06:24 PM

My D70s just came in the mail yesterday!

i have to photograph a wedding soon, and it gave me a good excuse/funds to finally upgrade from the ol' F80. How do you like yours?

weaselnoze · May 03, 2006, 04:07:27 PM

i love mine!

roguegeek · May 03, 2006, 04:21:32 PM

Oh that's just nasty. Man, I hate bugs.

weaselnoze · May 03, 2006, 04:24:34 PM

phewy. they're not nasty! they're insects btw, not bugs

jake42 · May 03, 2006, 05:29:51 PM

Ah hymenoptera. Well at least the first two pictures are anyway.

Phaedrus · May 03, 2006, 05:35:39 PM

I love that 3rd shot of the fly, that is excellent!!

weaselnoze · May 03, 2006, 06:46:12 PM

the first is a polistes wasp (paper wasp?). second is apis melifera (honeybee).

12thmonkey · May 03, 2006, 09:17:03 PM

Quote from: weaselnoze on May 03, 2006, 04:24:34 PM
phewy. they're not nasty! they're insects btw, not bugs

And by insects, you really mean "flying objects," right?

MarkusN · May 04, 2006, 02:33:43 AM

Quote from: weaselnoze on May 03, 2006, 04:24:34 PM
phewy. they're not nasty!

It depends. You know the old adage: How to tell a friendly biker? By the flies between his teeth!

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