Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: Is this one Bombus pascuorum ?, 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
You must have had your telephone number on the camera, you were lucky! There are honest people around, but we don't expect honesty now do we.

I don't remember which camera you had, it did have a good macro I do remember, a Canon? I'm getting a Nikon D40X, the prices have recently dropped and this one gets a great read-up, plus they have a refund of £90 until the end of the month. Still waiting to hear from my son though, I had thought I would get the Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ18 (not out yet) but found some rotten close ups from people who had been to the convention. I also found the sensor is only 1/8 size of a DSLR.

I have spent a lot of time sorting my bumblebee pics, today I sent one lot of 12 pics for ID, 7 bees, more to go yet! A big job with over 300 pics but I am selecting one or two of each.

I have around 100 pics of B. pascuorum, some may be B. muscorum but I doubt they could be positively ID'd without a specimen, not doing that! Yesterday, for a while, the sun shone and there was a few around without any black hairs to my eye, can't see any in the pics either but they were difficult to photograph.

This message was edited Aug 21, 2007 6:54 PM