You start with this plant:
I would like to tel you its name, in Latin, or English, or Thai; but I have no idea and my local cultural adviser doesn’t have a clue either (if you could eat it, she would know exactly what it is called). Anyway, it is about 10 centimetres high and of average weirdness and attractiveness for an Asian offering. But if you look closer, it seems to be very attractive to a small flying insect:
Yes, it’s waspus minimus (possibly), a tiny wasp that likes to insert itself into the small flowers of the plant with no name, and in the process picks up the plant’s pollen. A symbiotic relationship played out in miniature on a plant near you.
Of course I had to try and photograph it.
Fitted the Raynox 202 and attempted to catch a beastie during a very fleeting visit to a flower. Not at all easy.
Easier just to use the LX3 in normal macro mode, and then you also get to see some of the nice red blobby bits too.
Not surprisingly, there was other wildlife hanging around the flowers hoping to join in the symbiosis.
Once again the LX3 proved to be a great macro camera; just wish the waspus minimus (minimi?) had moved around less.