soo harrrd for the money!

Your way of tricking people into looking at more pictures of bugs?
You do have some awsome photo skills  .  Wish my pic's would turn out half was well as yours do.

I think they keep getting better, too  I love the frame on that second one, too.

Wow...the detail of the second one is amazing! 

How'd you get the wasp to stay so still?

You must have one crazy macro lense on that puppy. Well done.

Look at how vibrant the yellow is!  Expecially on the antenae in the second shot!  Beautiful!  Is it stripping the bark?  Wonder why?

Quote from: scratch on May 26, 2006, 06:35:50 PM
Look at how vibrant the yellow is!  Expecially on the antenae in the second shot!  Beautiful!  Is it stripping the bark?  Wonder why?

Because that is how hornets make their nests (at least some of the species). They strip the wood, then combine it with their saliva to glue it all together.

I learned something new!  Thanks!  Post count +1

Let's go Jackets! =) GT baby!

yup they strip wood and make their paper nests with it! quite fascinating if u ask me!

you sure do take lots of photographs of bugs. do you sell them as stock photography or is this just some twisted hobby, LOL?

...hobby...

Wasps are some of the most badass critters...those are awesome!  More?

Quote from: pantablo on May 26, 2006, 10:58:59 PM
you sure do take lots of photographs of bugs. do you sell them as stock photography or is this just some twisted hobby, LOL?

unfourtunately the latter..

dude what lens do you have? I can not that close with my micro

anyway here are new to me bugs.

sue, i have a sigma EX 105mm F2.8. i love it!

Weasel...........that looks like a damned HORNET! If people think a wasp is bad then they have NEVER been stung by a hornet! That is an exellent pic!!!!!!!
You ARE working hard for the money which in turn means you are working hard for the kitty cat!
I was a young man once.............don't try to con Good Old Mr. Wilson!
hahahahahaahaahhahahhahahahahaahahaahahahahahahahha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You are an exellent photographer..............exellent............don't know any other way to say it.
If there was a grade higher than A+........................you'd get it!

lol thanks wilson.  im pretty sure that is a polistese wasp tho.  wanna look it up for me?

yup polistese..."paper" wasps.  Anyone who things wasps or hornet are bad have never had the pleasure of a bee encounter.  Wasps will only attack you if they feel threatened.  Bees will attack in mass and kill you because you're breathing.  Lets not forget "killer" bees...which I've had the pleasure of being stung by one...if you can't handle a wasp or a hornet then you're either a cooter (I remember, pablo), alergic or a girl.

careful there. honeybees are of the most gentle insects.  just dont threaten them.  i regularly get within less than a foot from the opening of the bee hives in our backyard (dad is a hobbist).  also wasps will sting over and over and over whereas honey bees sting once and their barbed stinger, along with a pumping poison sac, gets ripped out of their abdomen.  they then die after stinging.