Yes they are very pretty little wasps bonitin, seems I have a lot of these! Once I would not have know what they looked like without being able to capture them at high magnification, I doubt I would have even noticed it other than thinking it was a small gnat type fly.
Now I have a trained eye and can often recognise it's at least a wasp!
Thanks Bruce, now I'm not so sure if I didn't have the setting on the 1.1 which is only a little off the full magnificaton but can be slightly easier to get with a moving insect. Unfortunately I can't tell from the picture properties as being a fixed lens it always shows it as full focal length even if you have to focus at different distances! Maybe there's somewhere else to look for the info, but since I downloaded Windows Vista Live and my ordinary Pictures was taken over by that I don't seem to have the same info.
I do a lot of single handed shooting, when I have to lift a leaf and/or it's windy, you can shoot like gauging the passing ducks at a fair ground, when in focus briefly hit the button! You will know yourself that when the shutter goes off you can tell if it's in perfect focus, you can see the crisp lines.
I have another small wasp about the same size I took which I found in a single spiders strand, a beautiful emeral green one with red eyes. It ended up on the back of my hand and needed to have a clean up so I managed a better shot, I was near the wall so could at least rest my fingers on that where with this one I had to hold both hands steady! The pores on my hand look like deep trenches and I can't see any hairs on the back of my hand but it used one as a prop for it's leg! I'll have to load it up later for you to see.
