The Approach

I spent some time one afternoon with my macro lens working on just one large colony of wild pea. Over the course of things I was able to distinguish at last 6 different types of bee/wasp working the blossoms, and another two varieties on immediately adjacent plants. I didn't manage to get satisfactory pictures of all of them, though I did try. After a while I gave up trying to get them all - some you just couldn't get close to - and instead spent some time trying to capture the ones I could get close to in flight.

It's not as easy as you might think... Having said that, this shot isn't bad, though a little faster shutter would have been nice so as to capture more of the wings.

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