Full Spectrum Photography - Resin Bees living in wood beams

For the last few years ive seen a certain kind of bee living inside of a wood beam outside. It was a former home of a Carpenter bee, an insect that worked hard to tunnel into the wood and live inside. Well it seems these Resin Bees kicked it out. I would see the Carpenter bee return once in awhile just to be chased away by the Resin bees.

These bees are different from the Mason and Leafcutter bees. And their body is much longer and larger, I took some pictures with my full spectrum camera, though the background was quite bright and washed out the images.

Since these are the only photos I got of them using my full spectrum camera I still wanted to show them off.

Camera Model	Lumix GH3, modified by LifePixel for Full Spectrum
Lens	Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 12mm-50mm
Filter	None
Aperture	f/6.3
Shutter Speed	1600 sec
Film Speed	800
Spectrum	Full Spectrum (FS)
Wavelength	300 nanometers through 1200 nanometers
Location	North Georgia USA.

They collect pollen like other Solitary bees but they like larger homes I think, maybe cause they are at least twice as big as the Mason and Leafcutter bees.

They have not shown any interest in the bee boards, maybe thats not what they are looking for and quite happy using the former Carpenter bee home.

It seems for the last few generations they have been living here, so im guessing the bees I see each year are one spawn from the homes.

I hope to attract them to the homes I make, as they have alot of pollen they accumulate on their bodies. And harvesting that pollen would be alot of fun.

Well just glad to have more bees in the area, even if they dont use the homes I make for them.

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I take pictures with a special camera. Its a Mirrorless DSLR that has been modified by Life Pixel to see light in other wavelengths. This allows my camera to see light in the Infrared [IR] around 1300 NM wavelength, through the visual spectrum and into the Ultraviolet A and B wavelengths roughly into the 300 NM wavelength.

I carry many filters on me to make the photos you see in my blog, these filters screw on my lens and help me isolate certain wavelengths for certain scenes. These filters can be IR / UV pass-through filters to assist me get a natural photo taking out the UV and IR light. Or I may use a Infrared pass-through filter capture just IR light. I can do the same with UV light as well, though I need some better filters which they can cost a few hundred dollars for true Ultraviolet pass through filters. So for right now I have B + W 403 bandpass filters that still allow some IR light in, due to their cheaper material.

There are also exotic glasses made of sapphire and germanium I am open to working with to replace my silica glass hot mirror with a material that allows even longer wavelengths of infrared to enter my cameras sensor. Special sensors, lenses and filters of that material would be needed as well, so it would be a big project but one that may give some even more unique photography results.

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