| Keywords: apidae oxaeinae bee bees andrenidae paraguay stingless centris red butt redbutt leaf droege biml usgs usgsbiml south america southamerica notoxaea notoxaea ferruginae notoxaeaferruginae taxonomy:binomial=notoxaea ferruginae taxonomy:binomial=notoxaeaferruginae black background insect animal moth photo border outdoor macro The sad Notoxaea...the only member in its genus.  It lacks a sting and perhaps is a mimic of the many potent Centris bee species.  You will have to go south of the Amazonian basin to find this baby.  Collected by Laurence Packer's York University adventurers.  Note that as part of an experiment in cleaning up old bee specimens I blasted the end of this specimens wings right off...whoops!, but I learned something by doing it.                  ~~~~~~~~~~{{{{{{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  The sad Notoxaea...the only member in its genus.  It lacks a sting and perhaps is a mimic of the many potent Centris bee species.  You will have to go south of the Amazonian basin to find this baby.  Collected by Laurence Packer's York University adventurers.  Note that as part of an experiment in cleaning up old bee specimens I blasted the end of this specimens wings right off...whoops!, but I learned something by doing it.                  ~~~~~~~~~~{{{{{{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 |