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Temnosoma, Unknown Metallic Cuckoo Bee, collected in Argentina.


A metallic green bee similar to many metallic green bees in the Sweat Bee family Halictiadae, but if you were to look at one under the microscope you would find that the female has no pollen collecting hairs and thus would probably conclude that it is a bee but one that does not collect pollen and therefore it must be a nest parasite and you would be right. These bees lay their eggs in the nests of close relatives. Something else you would notice would be the large number of craters on the surface of this bee’s exoskeleton – these doubtless help trap any sharp sting or mandible tip of a host bee that the cuckoo discovers while attempting to do its darstadly deeds. This group of 7 species occurs from the United States down to Argentina.


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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


Further in Summer than the Birds Pathetic from the Grass A minor Nation celebrates Its unobtrusive Mass. No Ordinance be seen So gradual the Grace A pensive Custom it becomes Enlarging Loneliness. Antiquest felt at Noon When August burning low Arise this spectral Canticle Repose to typify Remit as yet no Grace No Furrow on the Glow Yet a Druidic Difference Enhances Nature now


      -- 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

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Author USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab from Beltsville, Maryland, USA

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