Wow, those pics are amazing. Really cool!

Shane

Awesome pics man! Thanks for posting them!

I don't know about the beetle, but what Moose says works for me. I don't know if the yellow jacket was already dead or the Box Elder killed it. There were actually three of them feasting on the jacket at one time.

I use a Nikon300 camera body. The macro lens used was a Nikon 100mm macro.

The bees come out of a crack in the limb and at times I had the lens within 8-12" of the opening. Suprisingly,I never got stung nor did I think I was bothering the bees, at least I hope not.

Those red ones sure bug the hell out of us during the heat of the summer.

Cool pics...I have a stand i put up this year I called the ant hill stand. Huge ant hill 20 yeards away. Thankfully there are no ants in my tree.

Are you a photographer by trade?

You do great work, thanks.

I hate box elder bugs. Stupid things swarmed my trail cam last summer over the week.[:'(]Sweet pics of the bees and the deer.

No just an amateur. Photography is like a lot of things these days with all the advancement in technology. It is probably 75-80% equipment and only 20-25% user.

Not that I could make a living at it anyway, but even if I thought I could I remember what my old Bow Shop owner once told me after he "burned out" on Archery after operating a shop full time.

His comment....."The best way to ruin a good hobby is to turn it into a business."

Cool pics.