Birds and bees

Apparently bees in a swarm don't sting, because they're not defending a hive.

See?

And we'd been blaming possums, but this morning I saw a currawong at the tomatoes, and here is the result:

Focussing

One of the difficulties with a microscope is the lack of depth of field. So I thought I'd try out this free software that Graham found. I found some seaweed at the beach today and took a series of snapshots with different focus:

I loaded them into CZM and selected Macro > Do Stack. And this is what I got:

Not bad, I reckon, though it's done something funny at the bottom.