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I am an exclusive photographer with istockphoto and produce a wide variety of images. Recently I have been experimenting with high magnification photography of insects, plants and anything else I find that looks interesting up close.

I am a first year undergraduate studying Biology at the University of Oxford. I have a particular interset in entomology and enjoy exploring the huge diversity of insect species in the UK.

I aim to use this blog to share some of the photos I have been taking which I find particularly interesting, I try to do a little bit of research on the subjects of my photos but am far from an expert. if I have made any big errors or misidentified something, please leave a comment or send me an email to correct me .

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Sunday 11 April 2010

Cuckoo bee

This is the cuckoo bee Nomada goodeniana, they are described as cuckoo bees because the females lay there eggs in the nests of ground nesting bees, Andrena. The hatched larvae eat the pollen provisioned by the Andrena adults and emerge in the Spring. The practice of stealing food from another species is called cleptoparasitism, there are many wasp and bee species which feed their young in this way.

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Nomada goodeniana

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Nomada goodeniana

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