Visitor to the Squash Blossom

I was photographing a frog on a zucchini leaf (photo to come) when this fly alit on the blossom, with the sun highlighting its shimmering colors along with the pollen it had been eating. Here's hoping through its efforts, we'll have some zucchini in the future.

[Clare Gadsby]

fabulous light, colours and focus :)

[Pam Knowler]

Beautiful capture! Lovely colours! Fingers crossed for your crop of zucchini!

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Great details in this. I like the colors, too.

[Charmaine Zoe]

Great capture, love it's colour and iridescence!

[Christopher Cox]

Stunning light, colours, and focus

[Casablanca]

I thought it was a wasp at first! Wonderful macro and all best best for your courgette crop.

[bkb in the city]

Great capture

[Beryl Lloyd]

Superb , such a wonderful macro with that delightful iridescent glow on the fly ! fav ,

[Lou Ann]

Lovely macro. What a pretty fly, oh my.

[Peter Dulis]

Nice

[Henk-Jan]

Wonderful macro. Love the details

[Leon Buijs]

I agree with @casablanca I think it's a type of emerald wasp. Lovely capture

[Lin]

Wow - what amazing focus!

[Elizabeth]

Incredible details! Makes the fly look pretty.

[KV]

Love the detail.

[Graeme Stevens]

Great detail, love the colour of the fly

[KoalaGardens🐨]

what colours!

[Kathy]

Great DoF and close up of the insect and the blossom.

[sarah]

Fantastic detail ! Fav

[JackieR]

oh my this is wonderful!! Taffy have you seen Junko lately? she;s not uploaded for a while and I hoped she is ok

[Elisabeth Sæter]

Great shot

[Walks @ 7]

Stellar

[Islandgirl]

Wow nice close up............good luck with your zucchini!

[Milanie]

Great close-up - such detail on that fly.

[Gosia]

Yes, we need to take any incoming opportunity...

[Ann H. LeFevre]

Great colors and close-up! Start collecting zucchini recipes now...

[Babs]

Wow excellent. fav

[Faye Turner]

Great colours and capture

[Harry J Benson]

Nice closeup

[Kathy A]

The focus and colours are amazing!

[PhotoCrazy]

Wonderful color and detail! Missed your pics!

[Taffy]

@30pics4jackiesdiamond Thanks, Jackie! Junko's fine...we've been in touch pretty regularly and the problem is what many of us are feeling, lack of motivation and frustration with the way things are going here. She's healthy, but it's just hard living like this. I'm tagging her on this as well and did let her know you had asked about her.
@jyokota

[Marnie]

I like your colour scheme. Great image Taffy. Good to hear Junko @jyokata is fine even if she's climbing the wall. Lots of company up that wall methinks. People here are all showing signs of lack of motivation, frustration and general crankiness and/or bewilderment. Hang in there folks, all this has to ease sometime.

[gloria jones]

Fabulous focus, details

[Lynda McG]

Great shot - fav

[Lois]

Fantastic

[Lee-Ann]

Awesome detail shot.

[GaryW]

Amazing focus!

[aikiuser (jenn)]

Terrific image, so well captured!

[Rosie Kerr]

This one is a beauty! Just read that you are listing some land, too. Change is hard. :(. Looks like you're having a lovely summer.

[Helen Jane]

gorgeous colouring - I love how the fly is reflecting some of the colour of the zuccini.

[Sue Hecker]

I didn't read all the comments so maybe identified already, but looks like a green metallic sweat bee. They are really tiny.

[ZambianLass]

Oh wow - this is beautiful