Fluidr / Sam Droege's "Megachile inimica" set

Megachile inimica, U, face, Maryland, Anne Arundel County_2013-03-27-14.14.16 ZS PMax

N 7 B 19.9K C 3 E Apr 2, 2013 F Apr 2, 2013

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Anne Arundel County, Megachile inimica, From a Sand Pit along the Patuxent River

Tags: bug bugs bee bees pollinator pollinators animal animals Animalia Arthropod Arthropods Arthropoda Insect Insects Insecta Hymenoptera Aculeata Anthophila Apoidea Megachilidae Megachilinae Megachilini Megachile Megachile inimica taxonomy:binomial=Megachile inimica biml usgs droege anne arundel county maryland sand pit dark pwrc zerene stacker macro StackShot usgsbiml

Megachile inimica, U, back, Maryland, Anne Arundel County_2013-03-27-14.05.54 ZS PMax

N 2 B 10.7K C 0 E Apr 2, 2013 F Apr 2, 2013

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Anne Arundel County, Megachile inimica, From a Sand Pit along the Patuxent River

Megachile inimica, U, side, Maryland, Anne Arundel County_2013-03-27-14.24.44 ZS PMax

N 6 B 10.9K C 1 E Mar 31, 2013 F Apr 2, 2013

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Anne Arundel County, Megachile inimica, From a Sand Pit along the Patuxent River

Megachile inimica, m, back, Dorchester Co, MD_2015-12-08-12.20

N 4 B 8.0K C 0 E Jul 20, 2017 F Jul 20, 2017

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A lover of yellow composites. Sunflowers and things that look like sunflowers. Megachile inimica is a big leaf cutter, quite hunky really, a bee's bee. This is a male and was collected at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Maryland. Oh, ....They planted a nice pollinator garden at their visitor's center and boom, it became the best place to see native bees on the whole refuge. These things make a difference. Photo by Dejen Mengis.

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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

Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all
Ye know on earth and all ye need to know
" Ode on a Grecian Urn"
John Keats

You can also follow us on Instagram - account = USGSBIML Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen:

Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Marylandhttp://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:
ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/Droege/How%20to%20Take%20MacroPhotographs%20of%20Insects%20BIML%20Lab2.pdf

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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Megachile inimica, m, side, Dorchester Co, MD_2015-12-08-13.17

N 11 B 8.2K C 1 E Jul 20, 2017 F Jul 20, 2017

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