Stragglers Arrive

[GBO25]

I have a little colony of blue banded bees in my back yard and the males always spend the night together hanging off twigs. The females live alone in burrows.
These little males begin to congregate just after sunset so trying to get a good shot and freeze the motion is difficult.
I finally tried using high speed sync with my external 580 EX flash. So these are flash photography at 1/3200, f5, ISO 200, 100mm macro.

In #2 you can see one straggler landing by grabbing the twig with its “nippers” as its legs flail around before they to grab hold.


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[Shadowman]

Nice set.

[purplehaze]

Oh, well done, Graham! I look forward to more!

[Wavelength]

That is good information regarding them; nice captures too

[IzzieK]

That is very interesting Graham...dumbo here googled stragglers, no such word. So I went back to check..they are bees. OK...too early in the yawning here...Anyway, I like the shot, particularly #2 showing the one that was about to join the community meeting.

[Stagecoach]

Great work Graham.

[Sam W]

Nice work Graham!

[John 2]

That's good work Graham. Excellent set.

[bnnrcn]

Nice set Graham I would crop #1 from the RHS and try a square frame.

[GBO25]

Thanks for the comments.

Nice set Graham I would crop #1 from the RHS and try a square frame.

I think you're right Binnur, a square frame would suit it very well.