Honeybee
Whenever Alan Krause sends in a picture, I know I’m gonna be crying myself to sleep for a week wishing I were a better photographer. This one came in a batch of pictures of which he commented “tried to find some interesting bugs… unfortunately, I only found the ordinary.”
It’s Alan, so you know there’s gonna have to be wallpaper.
Alan actually sent me a bunch of photos. I include this one here because there’s a run of bees right now. Tomorrow we’ve got Spider Friday, but Alan will be back on Monday. Oh my, will he be back on Monday. You know what the best part of running insectpod is? I’m already using Monday’s wallpaper. 
Thanks, Alan!
Slowly getting the site back onto an even keel. It's nice to get back into the old posting rhythm.
Scott said,
May 1, 2008 @ 9:08 am
Well spring has spring so lots of bees to be snapped. Have you gotten the two bees I sent your way?
Scott said,
May 1, 2008 @ 9:09 am
Spring has also sprung.
tceisele said,
May 1, 2008 @ 9:38 am
I for one appreciate pictures of “ordinary” bugs as much as “exotic” ones. Really, most of the time we don’t see insects close up enough to see detail, so they are all pretty interesting as long as you can get sufficient magnification.
And, way too many people think that it’s only worth photographing if it is “interesting”. So, when you go to Bug Guide there are about a million photos of things like praying mantises and the more showy butterflies, but hardly any decent pictures of things like houseflies that people see in real life all the time, but never photograph. For example, right up until I posted one a few months ago, BugGuide didn’t have a single picture of a codling moth caterpillar, even though people find them in apples all the time
Alan said,
May 1, 2008 @ 12:31 pm
Good point - I took my time to get as close as possible without disturbing the bees. I like how you can see the individual hairs on the bees body, and how the coloration of the lighter bands on the abdomen changes from a honey brown to gray-brown.
And thanks much for the compliments, David!
peggysue said,
May 2, 2008 @ 3:47 pm
Now that you’ve made me very curious you should email me Monday’s photo! Or I’ll tell your mother!