Insects in flight

I find it difficult to photograph insects in flight—birds are not easy either, but they are not as difficult as insects. Insects are small and usually too fast for my camera’s auto focus to capture. So, my occasional modest success with flying insects owes more to persistence than skill.

Here is a honey bee approaching a wild rose. You can see the ball of pollen attached to its hind legs.

A hover fly approaches a flower of the same plant.