Bald Faced Hornets raiding the grape jelly

[Andrew Lamberson]

It is that time of the year when I have to take down my grape jelly that is out for the remaining juvenile Baltimore Orioles. The adults have apparently already headed south, but I do get a lone occasional adult that must be migrating from further north.

The Bald face hornets are taking over the feeder and driving everything else away.

The below image is a 40-image stack using the Nikon Z6II Focus Stacking feature and processed in Helicon Focus.

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[DRwyoming]

Wow, fantastic detail, great composition and great background Andrew. Awesome macro shot!

 

[Charles Loy]

Fantastic!! You nailed it

 

[Nick B.]

Amazing! How did you keep the hornet still enough to do that large a stacking?

 

[Woody Meristem]

Superb photograph!!!!

 

[Andrew Lamberson]

Methyl Acetate and a Hydro-sonic bath.

 

[Bill M]

Extraordinary!

 

[Andrew Lamberson]

Thank you everyone. This hornet is a really bad bug!