Centris varia, female
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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


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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

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Family: Carabidae
Size: 12.8 mm (11.0 to 14.0 mm)
Distribution: Iran, Caucasus region, Asia Minor to Western Europe, in Central Europe especially in warm areas
Biology: On fields and wasteland
Location: Germany, Bavaria, Upper Franconia, Bayreuth district, Untersteinach, Weinberg
leg.det. G.Roessler, 23.IV.1973
Photo: U.Schmidt, 2024

Tags:   Coleoptera Käfer Beetle Insect Carabidae Harpalus dimidiatus Harpalus dimidiatus Germany Deutschland taxonomy:binomial=harpalus dimidiatus taxonomy:order=coleoptera taxonomy:family=carabidae taxonomy:genus=harpalus taxonomy:species=dimidiatus geo:country=germany Coleoptera-us Kaefer Insekt

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Family: Carabidae
Size: 12.0 mm (9.4 to 14.0 mm)
Distribution: Europe without the North, Caucasus, Southern Russia, Asia Minor, Middle East
Biology: Eurytope forest species
Location: Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Black Forest, Utzenfeld
leg.det. U.Schmidt, 15.IV.1981
Photo: U.Schmidt, 2024

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Detail of a tiger beetle (Calomera bordonii, Coleoptera, Carabidae). Collection specimen from Indonesia (Moluccas, Buru island., ca. 250m alt., May 2013).

Studio work with a rehydrated collection specimen. Focus stack of 198 images, assembled in Zerene Stacker (Dmap & Pmax). Sony A7Rm5 + Canon MP-E 2.8/65mm at 4.5x; ISO-100, f/4, 0.4 sec, diffused led light (Nanlite Forza 60B II).

Tags:   macro insect beetle Indonesia Buru Sony A7R5 Canon MPE 65 focus stack Zerene stacker Cognisys stackshot taxonomy:kingdom=Animalia Animalia taxonomy:phylum=Arthropoda Arthropoda taxonomy:subphylum=Hexapoda Hexapoda taxonomy:class=Insecta Insecta taxonomy:subclass=Pterygota Pterygota taxonomy:order=Coleoptera Coleoptera taxonomy:suborder=Adephaga Adephaga taxonomy:superfamily=Caraboidea Caraboidea taxonomy:family=Carabidae Carabidae taxonomy:subfamily=Cicindelinae Cicindelinae taxonomy:tribe=Cicindelini Cicindelini taxonomy:subtribe=Cicindelina Cicindelina taxonomy:genus=Calomera Calomera taxonomy:species=bordonii taxonomy:binomial=Calomera bordonii Calomera bordonii

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Family: Carabidae
Size: 15.8 mm
Origin: North Africa
Location: Morocco, El-Jadida
leg. H.J.Mager, 11.VII.1970; det. U.Schmidt, 1994
Photo: U.Schmidt, 2024

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