I’ve been practicing my macro shots again, and this butterfly posed beautifully…
Category Archives: Insects
Creepy crawlies and other creatures at Sinamatella Camp, Hwange National Park…
He stole my apple! 
Ive never seen so many of these creatures in one place before! 
Bee…
While photographing this flower – I was photobombed! Although he is not in focus – look at the concentration on his face!
Incoming!
All these pics taken in Matetsi Safari Area, North western Zimbabwe
Wasp Moth…
I noticed these beautiful flowers, walking through the rain forest near the Victoria Falls, ( I was later told it was Tetradenia riparia http://www.plantzafrica.com/planttuv/tetradenripar.htm) and then saw this guy…and like the predators he intends scaring off, I thought he was a wasp.
Actually, he is a moth mimicking a wasp! 
Euchromia formosa – I’m told
Butterflies…
If you look carefully, you will see there are long spikes sticking out at the back of this butterfly and when its flitting about on the flower, the tail end moves, much like the front! I wonder if that is to confuse predators? So they cant tell which is the back and which is the front!
Butterflies…
I’ve found the best way to capture butterflies is to focus on a flower they are visiting and wait…but sometimes they flit in and out so quickly I cant press the shutter fast enough!
When I came to edit my photos, I came across this one…(above) and I just love it. Sans butterflies! I’m thinking to use it as a birthday card or add one of those inspirational quotes!
Herewith the butterflies!
All these images were taken with my new Panasonic FX1000 in our garden in Fort Rixon
Butterfly…
I know…its a very common butterfly – so sue me…
…I don’t even know if its a butterfly or a moth…but I love the way the light is shining clear through its wings.
Hummingbird Hawk Moth
It has a long complicated Latin name!
(SPHINGIIDAE/MACROGLOSSIDAE/Macroglossum trochilus)
But really hard to capture on a photo – I took hundreds to get these few..and I had no time to mess about with settings or anything – I hardly had time to press the shutter button before they were off again.
I didn’t notice they have a long proboscis until I transferred the photos off the camera.
They were hovering amongst a patch of Zinnia’s
Carpenter Bee…
As kids, we always called these creatures, bumble bees…
Now, Im told we don’t get bumble bees in Africa…only carpenter bees!!!
These pics were taken in a patch of Zinnia’s…in a place called Esigodini, (46km from Bulawayo…)
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Bees drinking…
Obviously thirsty work this – making honey!
I love the way they go to a crack in the leaf to drink – so they don’t fall in the water.
