A few pics from the Bee Hive stand
 

Some of yopu may remember that earlier this summer I posted about a particular ladder stand I hung last winter only to find out that it has a bee hive in one of the limbs (an old cottonwood).

I contemplated trying to kill bees but input from the such as Germ and DukeMichaels reminded me of how important bees are and not to kill them. So I didn't. But moving the stand is not an option in that trees big enough to hunt out of in our area are few and far between.

Rather, I chose to wait until we had a cold spell and freeze so they would go dormant. I hunted it this past weekend and while the activity is miniscule compared to the summer's activities, it was not completely dormant on a warm fall day. But knowing this, I took a Macro lens with me and had as much fun as I can remember with my camera.

Here are a few of my favorite pics from this weekend.

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man you couldn't pay my allergic a$$ to climb up in that tree!!!! :D cool pics .........gave me the willys though!![8D]

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Thanks for sharing the pictures! I enjoy looking at them. By the way, what type of insect is the one that has some red on it?

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Those pictures are breathtaking. What kind of camera are you using and which macro lens? Thank you for sharing.

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Jack as usual you have put some awesome photo's up again...Thanks for sharing!!!

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those pictures are great man thanks for sharing
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Nice pics, jackflap. What camera and lens are you using?

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Spectacular pictures and great use of the settings on that camera

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those are some awesome pics

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we call em box elders...i could be wrong tho.

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Wow, those pics are amazing. Really cool!

Shane

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Awesome pics man! Thanks for posting them!

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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.

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

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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.

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Are you a photographer by trade?

You do great work, thanks.

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

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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."

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Cool pics.