Those pesky bees...

Poor red-spotted purple butterfly,
just mindin' yer own business
sippin' on a flower

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Enjoyin' yer nectar
'til the unruly neighbors
move in on ya

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"Buzz off ya lil blighter!"
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"Don't think so, ya ol' flutter brain!"

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And the bumblebee prevails...

Awesome shots Hazel. :thumbs up

Does your camera have a setting for taking a series of pictures or do you just hold down the button for multiple frame pictures? :shrug:

Wow, what great shots :lovestruck:

Nice pics hazel!! DD will love seeing those! :thumbs up

Those are really awesome shots, Hazel. :lovestruck: :cloud9:

You need to send them to a nature magazine ....they'd get published for sure. :thumbs up

Nice pictures Hazel ! :thumbs up

Thanks, ladies. :o


Does your camera have a setting for taking a series of pictures or do you just hold down the button for multiple frame pictures? :shrug:

I do have the camera set for multiple frames per second, but rarely use the feature. In this case, the bumblebee had to work up its nerve and plan its angle of entry carefully, so it hovered above the butterfly quite a while. :D Plenty of opportunity to get the shots...and I probably cheated and rearranged the shots some to make it look like a more direct assault! :laughing: But shhhhhhhh...don't tell anyone! :p

OMG Hazel,those pics are fantastic,beautiful:thumbs up
My Cone-flowers are gone,done,finished for this year,but we still have plenty of Bees and Bumble-Bees+the odd Monarch in the Budleia Bush..I HATE fall:yell:

Our coneflowers and rudbeckia are about all that's left blooming these days, chico! I love it when the birds start going after the seeds, though--so all my spent flowers are still up and waiting for the seeds to ripen into food :D