Wasps. And am I ever having fun!

New digital camera. Fairly cheap, since I'm a newbie.

And a couple of dull days and a sick day, so I'm inside, playing with it. I pulled out a few boxes of bugs and bones to practice with close-ups and the software that came with the camera. (Lousy, by the way.)

Here's a sample. Not too great, as yet, but I see possibilities. Let it rain!

The first is a bald-faced wasp. A big guy.

A skull of a bird, sunbleached. Found beside Boundary Bay beach. Probably a seagull.














A wasp's nest, abandoned early in the building. You can see the one cell where a larva was developing. The little bump at the bottom was a kind of stem and anchor.

A chickadee feather, for size comparison.

And a small mushroom.








A small wasp.










An unidentified bug.

















A conifer borer, that, with the aid of his family, destroyed Laurie's favourite spruce tree. Bottom view.














The small wasp, a couple of seeds from a weed found near Chase, in the BC interior, a mushroom from the same area, that unidentified bug, belly up, and a dime for comparison.