Ruby-tailed wasp

[damage]

Found this Ruby-tailed wasp on my house wall, put a drop of honey on a brick and waited. My wait paid off


239 s by John Chorley, on Flickr

 

[Mmarques]

Awesome capture! Never seen one of these before!

 

[Dogfish_magnet]

All i've got on the wall is rain :-( - Good capture, nice lighting & DOF

 

[photopainter]

Lovely shot - saw one of these for the first time the other day watched it for ages then went to get camera and it was gone... The joy of macro....

 

[Trev4]

What stunning colours, I sure havent seen one of these before. Really good detail and use of DoF, very well taken

 

[P-Chan]

simply amazing.... i find these bees a tad hard to shot as their back side is pretteir then their face

 

[Suzbah]

Great wasp, nice shot

 

[RJL2005]

Nicely done mate!

 

[Digitall]

Excellent capture

 

[Cliffsh]

another great capture John, I'm sure you've got your own exotic wasp collection mate.....

 

[Just Dave]

Cracker John

 

[pepi1967]

Great shot. All i get in my garden are flies bees and the odd stray dog that pops in to cr*p on my marigolds :razz:.. love the capture elegant looking wasp.

 

[IanClark]

Lovely shot John, I have yet to capture one of these.

 

[Biosphere]

Awesome little wasps these, hopefully I can find one soon.

 

[blackfazer]

That's very good. I didn't know of these wasps before.

 

[Peter_Hartland]

excellent & thanks for the tip