Mimic Meets Model

I had a very good day out shooting dragonflies with a long telephoto, extension tube, and teleconverter.  When I got back to the truck, I decided to switch to the 180 mm macro.  I saw a patch of bug fuzz protruding from beneath a curled grape leaf. A bumble bee mimic (Laphria species)  captured and was devouring a bumble bee before my eyes.  These robber flies are excellent mimics of bumble bees and will often  take bees as prey. I was able to carefully rotate the leaf and fired off about a dozen shots.  I used some fill flash (-1 ev) to lighten up the shadows (1/90 sec at f13, ISO 1250), slight crop for comp........................Jim