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Originally Posted by LightningNZ
Super awesome shots! Are the stripes on the bee in the 2nd image fluorescing? They sure look like it to me. That's not something I'd heard of before.
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Hello, Cam
The bee in #2 is a Blue Banded Bee. Sometimes the intensity of the blue stripes can be quite strong and appear almost luminescent. They move very rapidly and as they only seem to alight on a flower for what seems like less than a second, I find them very difficult to photograph in-flight.
Here is a rear-end view, cropped straight out of the camera (i.e. a Raw capture with no processing) to show the intensity of the colours from a different angle.
Cheers
Dennis