The Big One by NightGallery

Photography • Insects • posted on Aug 06, 2009

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[Family Scoliidae - Scoliid Wasps - Genus Campsomeris- my best guess] Seen a lot of these large wasps yesterday at the wetlands. These guys are BIG! About 2 inches long. Thick and robust. They are not to jumpy around my presence, but I am jumpy around theirs. They scare me... ;-) Thanks for looking. -Bruce Canon XTi w/50mm 2.5 and +2-+4 Hoya close up filters. Flash used with Gary Fong Puffer Diffuser.

Comments (24)

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DAVER2112

10:36AM | Thu, 06 August 2009

That's amazing! Grand shot. :)

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MossSphere

11:09AM | Thu, 06 August 2009

Another brillant shot - really like the way you manage to capture the fine hair and eye details. Did you using your flash with the diffuser on this one?

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sandra46

11:22AM | Thu, 06 August 2009

superfantastic macro!

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NightGallery

11:38AM | Thu, 06 August 2009

Moss yes, the flash was on

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Fidelity2

11:49AM | Thu, 06 August 2009

Great. 5+!

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THROBBE

12:06PM | Thu, 06 August 2009

You must have one of those CSI dual flash units! Awesome work!!!

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Meowgli

12:24PM | Thu, 06 August 2009

awesome!

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durleybeachbum

12:58PM | Thu, 06 August 2009

WOW! huge! I've not been scared of an insect yet, but........!

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flora-crassella

1:14PM | Thu, 06 August 2009

what a interesting wasp!!!!! fantastic picture!!!! Great macro!!!!

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wackiej

1:29PM | Thu, 06 August 2009

Fantastic Macro. I love those eyes.

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Grego_Sheen

2:52PM | Thu, 06 August 2009

Great shot of this king wasp (such huge size!!) I remeber two years ago I was on The museum of Nature sciences. The have a great collection of insects (death in presentation boards) And they use to show a common wasp of my country (beglium) and the same variety coming from africa... Say eight time the size of our little local wasp! As crazy as impressive!!
Btw, beautiful speciment!!

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