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Green yellow black wasp - Agapostemon virescens - male

Green yellow black wasp - Agapostemon virescens - Male
Rockford, Winnebago County, Illinois, USA
August 21, 2010
Size: 12mm
This beauty was feeding on a flower.

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He kinda looks like Agapostem
He kinda looks like Agapostemon from the photos, but don't take my word for it...I don't know a bee from a buffalo.

 
yep
an agapostemen of sorts
keith- it makes me sad to see this- it's one thing to catch insects for a collection, but to kill and glue on a stick, take some pictures and then your done with it- i think it is a sad waste of insect life

 
sad waste of insect life
Jody, to a degree I am with you. I don't use insecticide in my garden and spiders, butterflies and moths are completely spared by me. It does make me a bit sad when I kill a beautiful wasp, but many folks (beyond the BugGuide world) get to appreciate their beauty. I have no remorse for killing flies.

Kind regards,

KS

 
why?
there are some beautiful flies
i also think we shouldn't be able to say which insects are best.

WOW!
Spectacular shots! Photos of this resolution always give these creatures more 'personality', like a portrait. I'm totally jealous of your camera!

 
photos...
I don't have equipment that works well in the field. Too much mirror bounce on my Pentax ist*DS. I catch, freeze and glue the subject to a stick. With dead bugs I can photograph them in my bug studio with the mirror locked up. Then I stack multiple photos to enhance the depth of field.

The syntheytic depth of field from photo stacking allows you to make "discoveries" with every bug. As a mechanical engineer I find it interesting to see how Mother Nature has solved the same problems I deal with every day on the job. And if you can photogaph a pollen grain, a spawl on a gear tooth is not much of a challenge.

KS

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