Anthophora terminalis, f, back, Cleveland, Ohio 2020-08-17-13.34.47 ZS PMax UDR (51155889362)

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Anthophora terminalis. Orange butt. Three teeth. Internal wing cells almost entirely free of hairs (why are there hairs, sometimes hundreds of hairs, on many bees wings? Good question and perhaps answering that question would gain you the Nobel Peace Prize, but more likely it would simply generate mild curiosity among a very small academic crowd, unless your organization had a publicist who would likely hype it in a way that would get a lot of google hits so that the publicist would get a bigger bonus at the end of the year and reporters could interview you and write articles like "Do hairy wings make bees buzz?" or some other demoralizing, pun infested article that shows how very little respect you command compared to an astronomer (who, btw, discovering something so very far away that even the astrologists believe it never did and never will have any influence over our lives)). Photo by Anders Croft (studying to be a marine biologist, a semi-serious profession). 16:25, 7 May 2021 (UTC)16:25, 7 May 2021 (UTC){{{{{{0}}}}}}16:25, 7 May 2021 (UTC)16:25, 7 May 2021 (UTC) All photographs are public domain, feel free to download and use as you wish. Photography Information: Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200 We Are Made One with What We Touch and See We are resolved into the supreme air, We are made one with what we touch and see, With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair, With our young lives each spring impassioned tree Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change. - Oscar Wilde You can also follow us on Instagram - account = USGSBIML Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen: Best over all technical resource for photo stacking: www.extreme-macro.co.uk/ Art Photo Book: Bees: An Up-Close Look at Pollinators Around the World: www.amazon.com/Bees-Up-Close-Pollinators-Around-World/dp/... Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Maryland: bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf Basic USGSBIML set up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4 Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques: plus.google.com/events/c5569losvskrv2nu606ltof8odo or www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU Excellent Technical Form on Stacking: www.photomacrography.net/ Contact information: Sam Droege sdroege@usgs.gov 301 497 5840