| Keywords: bee bees hypanthidiodies dicranthidium taxonomy:binomial=hypanthidioides arenaria taxonomy:binomial=hypanthidioidesarenaria hypanthidioides arenariaresin nestbrazil hypanthidioidesarenariaresinnestbrazil megachilidae stackshotzerene stacker stackshotzerenestacker droege biml usgs usgsbiml animal Small resin nest building bees.  Most of the genus hails from South America with one species making it up into southern Mexico.  Another from the Packer lab!                  ~~~~~~~~~~{{{{{{0}}}}}}~~~~~~~~~~   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    The murmuring of bees has ceased; But murmuring of some Posterior, prophetic, Has simultaneous come,--   The lower metres of the year, When nature's laugh is done,-- The Revelations of the book Whose Genesis is June.   -Emily Dickinson    Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use?  Well now here you go Citizen:    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   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  Small resin nest building bees.  Most of the genus hails from South America with one species making it up into southern Mexico.  Another from the Packer lab!                  ~~~~~~~~~~{{{{{{0}}}}}}~~~~~~~~~~   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    The murmuring of bees has ceased; But murmuring of some Posterior, prophetic, Has simultaneous come,--   The lower metres of the year, When nature's laugh is done,-- The Revelations of the book Whose Genesis is June.   -Emily Dickinson    Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use?  Well now here you go Citizen:    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   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 |