Getting Ready For Takeoff

Superb colour contrast, great photo and framing

That's a good one. Wasps are fairly rare subjects 'cos they are so quick and hard to capture.

Light well describes both wasp and petals. Pretty compo and intriguing colors.

Thank you Flan, David and Giulio. David, you're right: wasps usually dart about like crazed kamikazees. I have been lucky to have enticed them with beer cans in the past, and somehow slowed them down inside my office, exploring my typed lens list, of all things. And once a wasp seemed to like hanging around a warm metal pipe right after a sunshower had scattered them to the four winds. Cranking up your shutter speed is always a good idea if you are photographing these colourful little critters.