The image legend didn’t say what type of bee. Lovely mahogany shades on her body though. If I was forced to guess, I would guess a Russian. This is the article I was reading when I found the picture.
I was pursuing a musing of trying to get some artificial footprint pheromone if my bees don’t like the Flow frames. The article was interesting and pretty, but didn’t solve my quest. 
Dawn,
What ever it safely takes to get the bees using the Flow-frames. I’m letting you n others pave the way for me ! 
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. I worked with this Queen last weekend. 
We put her in this Nuc box last Saturday in our bee class doing a split. 
. B.T.W. Here’s a flower for your efforts !! Have a great rest of your Humpday down there. I
am so darn pumped up here waiting for my 3 Nuc’s. I can taste their wax n nectar already 
. Gerald
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Excellent Photographs - appreciate the chance to look at these.
You get BeeCraft as well? I love it
Sorry I read Bee Culture as well my bad! 
Hey Dawn, what a brilliant magazine. Much better than our Beecraft.
I’ve just bought a year’s worth of digital 
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So it was yesterday when my flight hole. Young bees when flying and other ‘sterzeln’ and thus show the path.
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OK not the best Photos - I discovered the Bumble Bee that has been lurking near my bees recently (I think it is the same one) Is nesting in my front garden!!!
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I was leaning over my fence into the pampas grass and all my neighbours were stopping looking and we were chatting about bees, even a chap from the Bee club walked by.
I need a better camera - I think the are some scratches on the lens since the aperture closure broke.
Any suggestions on a good not too expensive CMOS welcome
This is the type of Bumble. It was definitely the Queen. The orange are was more reddish though
Valli !
What’s your idea of expensive ? My idea is cameras over 1000 to 2000 but then I shot professionally on the side for nearly 35 years. Now it’s my hobby only.
That aside… Cannon, Nikon, Sony n others all have mid-range camera in their inventory. I’d look into one that has high resitativty (for finer detail), non lens changing but good zoom, n good battery life or one that uses normal photo AA photo batteries (non or chargeable).
I am a Nikon man but have many friends that equally defend the Canon brand name. I have a large collection of old 35mm n folding film cameras. I grow up when B/W was all we had then along came the unstable color then poloriod camera n improving colored films so like others I quickly changed over to Kodachrome n Ectachrome films n others used German n Japanese film. Now digital is about the only way to GO.
Not totally trusting the electronic world I still convert a few of my most important pix’s to paper… Just something about having that pix in an actual album give me pease it will be around for my family to have in the future. But as most of you might see n aware of… I shot a lot of pix’s per day. Here’s from this morning: 
Got to get ready for hive inspect in couple hours if the weather cooperates some. Been too cold n get last few days. Not much foraging going on.
Ta ta 
Gerald
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I have a Cannon G15 Power shot - Not sure I want a bridge camera but 1:1 CMOS for better quality. I’m told there is a new Powershot 7 coming out and the 6 is quite good as well - I have £400 put by but could go slightly higher - When doing the Bees the Powershot’s flimsy 6 piece aperture opening got caught and I think the lens is getting scratched so will try to go for a proper lens cap this time.
Those are nice clear shots - Obviously want to take close-up with bees not bothered about DOF or telephoto
Love the piccy of the clover leaf
I have Nikon DSLRs and a lot of expensive glass.
Most of my shots are done on the iPhone though. I have a cheap close focus adaptor. The quality is excellent and it’s always in my pocket.
@Gerald_Nickel how does this sound? Sony DSC-HX90 Compact Camera with 30x Optical Zoom
Valli,
I’ve had several older Sony movie n still digital cameras. Actually still have it but too old now !!
That Sony DSC-HX90 is highly rated n has some awesome features for its size… Has great 1 to 30x zoom. Can do movie n stills if you use the good quality data card. Suppose to get up to near 300 pix’s on a charge … Has small pop up flash n peep site viewer as well as the 3" wide LED screen. It will reverse for selfie too.
Cons: It’s not the best in low light situations. It gets slow n gainy. If you shot bursts it’s slow returning to normal pix’s until it has loaded that burst (guessing that’s not an issue for you). It’s a bit pricey but you pay for what you get !!
Yah ! I’d say that’s a pretty okay compact camera. Easy to keep in a pocket. I’d go for it without a problem.
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Take care n 
wise,
Gerald.
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+1. I have about $4000 worth of Nikon body and lenses. Since I got the iPhone 6s (and I’m sure android phones in the same price range are comparable), I don’t use the SLR anymore.
The picture quality of the iPhone is on par with the Nikon. The only exception to that is low light (I do nighttime astrophotography) where a fast lens on my Nikon really outshines the iPhone. For all other situations the iPhone is superb. And you always have it with you, and it’s a pocket computer too.
You can also get inexpensive clip-on lenses for the iPhone. I use the ipro system which has a phone case with a bayonet adaptor over the camera lens and 3 lenses that screw into the bayonet mount.
Even more about the iPhone: it shoots photos at up to 12 frames per second, better than most stand-alone camera. It shoots 4K video. It does slow-motion video at 240 frames per second. I have found this especially useful for videoing bees. They are so fast in real life but slow them down 8-fold and you get a new appreciation of what they are doing. See my video in the thread about “Is this robbing?”.
Hi Valli, I just bought a LUMIX tz110 in Australia) I think in england it has different model no. $849 here, might be cheaper over there but it is an awesome compact camera, check out the reviews. Cheers Tim
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@Araluen sorry Rob I’m not into anything “i” on principle. I buy my phones outright and unlocked. £5 a month for free texts, 120mins and internet is just one reason.
There is a Nokia with a decent sensor, unfortunately I don’t need a new phone.
@Timbo2 I think this is the same one Panasonic Lumix DMC TZ110 Digital Cameras - Black £406.99 - I’m a fan of Panasonic our TV, Disc recorder and Videos over the years have all been Panasonic - Generally good picture quality. But this camera doesn’t look Current here - mainly 2nd hand - along the lines I’m looking for
Hi Valli, the camera has just come out about two months ago. it is the current one it has 4 k photo, 4 k video capabilities. It is 25-250 equivalent zoom with macro, post focus which is pretty neat.
I’m not sure if this link will work, but Google the tz110 it is the same camera just different model no. Cheers Tim
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