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Sunday 12 June 2011

June 12, 2011

Highly polished! 
This is a Cuckoo Wasp - so called because it deposits it's eggs in other wasp's nests.
It did not like the camera much & this was the only photo I managed to get. I post the photo anyway, because it is the first time I have seen one of these during the past 18 months of mainly insect photography. Such amazing metallic colours!

5 comments:

  1. Renée12 June 2011 at 13:17

    Still looks like a blue-@$$ fly to me.. Lol..

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  2. @maggiezlenz12 June 2011 at 14:18

    Yes, it does - but this one has a sting in it's tail!!

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  3. Glynis Jill12 June 2011 at 14:33

    Beautiful shot Maggie with such amazing colours. I can't do any macro at the moment as I dropped poor Sony again and she is in the hospital.

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  4. Angela16 June 2011 at 15:33

    The colours and shine on this wasp are amazing Maggie...how much detail God puts into something so taken for granted. Thanks for showing us this.

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  5. Ant West21 June 2011 at 21:05

    Beautiful shot! Amazing wasp - thanks for the lesson... :) It would not be out of place in a science fiction movie with those exquisite metallics!!!!

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