The Blue Bee – Cukcoo Bee (Thyreus sp)

while I first see this bee .. I was amaze how fast it flying around, it is like impossible see what’s the fly or bee flying so fast with blue “thing” so I use few hours sit there and wait .. and trying to observe what’s the “object” flying around

Finally, I managed to “pause” and capture my very 1st “blue bee”

and few weeks later while I do my usual night MACRO, I found the Blue bee sleeping !!!!!!

since then, I love to see this bee sleep … and start love to find it as … it never move after sleep … it use it tooth clamp on the any stick, no matter how u shake, move it around. It will never woke us easily

This Bee , it is almost impossible to shoot day time where it fly real fast … you need a lot of patient to shoot it …. and it is good to capture while it sleep , it never move even we move it around, flash it …

and I even able to shoot 10x

10x

since then I never stop shooting it … even I have >100 pictures how this bee sleeping … even I brought some of my close friend to this spots to find it and shoot it for many times …

blue cuckoo bee

I have some video show how this bee woke up and flew off just within seconds ….