A tale of two insects

in #photography7 years ago

The insect on your left is a bee carrying a supply of pollen on its leg, the one on your right looks like a wasp, but that is just mimicry; it is a hoverfly, and it can't sting:


Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO160, f5.6, 1/500s

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@ocrdu the other one is a honey bee toch!
have you tried eating those flowers? Dandelions are tasteless - like that of spinach - the flowers only but the leaves damn - who the hell likes eating bitter leaves!!!! young ones - eeeekk

Je moet de grote nerven eruitsnijden, dan valt het best mee met die bladeren, hoor.

"Deze jonge blaadjes worden verkocht als molsla. Maar de kweek van de echte molsla is arbeidsintensiever. Dit gebeurt door de in het voorjaar uit de overwinterde wortelen of uit ondergespitte planten uitgroeiende jonge bladscheutjes bedekt te houden zodat geen, of weinig, bladgroen ontstaat. Vroeger werd in molshopen naar deze 'gebleekte' paardenbloembladeren gezocht, vandaar de naam molsla."

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Excellent photo to get them both together like that!

Thanks. Shortly after, the bee scared the would-be wasp into moving out of the way. Foraging is more important than politeness for them, I suppose 8-).

Working in the woods, we used to tell what was a threat and what wasn't by sound and whether they hovered or were on fast cruise. Silent and fast cruise..."run away, run away" !! Very nice comparison photo.

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