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April 26, 2021
12:19 PM PDT
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March 13, 2024
12:33 AM EDT
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February 24, 2024
05:56 PM PST
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February 11, 2024
07:42 PM PST
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March 9, 2024
08:11 AM PST
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March 9, 2024
01:22 PM PST
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December 17, 2022
03:47 PM PST
Description
Floating dock. In a Watersipora colony; red from feeding on it, probably. @imlichentoday
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December 23, 2019
11:20 AM EST
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October 10, 2022
02:07 AM MST
Description
Opilionid - Canopy Lodge, Panama 7 Oct 2022
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May 17, 2020
01:59 PM CST
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March 20, 2022
01:55 PM CST
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March 1, 2024
05:53 PM CST
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May 12, 2022
01:01 PM EDT
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August 18, 2020
12:02 PM EDT
Description
Nature is funny. I have lived here in Maryland pretty much my whole live and don't recall seeing this small spider before. Probably because I, like pretty much everyone, just wasn't paying attention.Found this week on the MAGLEV proposed train yard and repair site on BARC WEST. This and thousands more species of plants, animals, and insects will be gone if it goes in. Photo by Anders Croft.
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Best over all technical resource for photo stacking:
www.extreme-macro.co.uk/
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
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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
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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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July 12, 2013
03:35 PM EDT
Description
Unknown spider found March 21, 2013 in a steam tunnel underneath the Beltsville Agriculture Research Center, Ashley Bradford suggested that this might be...Pholcus phalangioides?
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May 3, 2017
12:12 PM AEST
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April 29, 2021
07:15 PM MST
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February 19, 2024
08:16 PM PST
Description
Beat from desert ironwood
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February 19, 2024
08:16 PM PST
Description
Beat from desert ironwood
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September 21, 2022
05:35 PM PDT
Description
Most difficult thing I have ever photographed
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August 29, 2023
10:19 AM PDT
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December 10, 2023
03:19 PM UTC
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December 24, 2023
07:08 PM HST
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January 31, 2024
04:55 PM UTC
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February 21, 2023
10:46 AM CST
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January 28, 2024
09:01 PM UTC
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May 6, 2023
04:52 PM BST
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January 14, 2023
09:02 PM PST
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July 24, 2017
04:20 PM UTC
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November 10, 2021
11:07 AM EST
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September 14, 2022
02:19 PM UTC
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December 11, 2023
05:02 PM MST
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January 6, 2024
07:29 AM MST
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January 3, 2024
10:38 AM MST
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January 14, 2024
05:14 AM UTC
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July 17, 2022
04:47 PM CDT
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February 25, 2021
04:26 PM MST
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February 15, 2018
07:22 PM PST
Description
this species is known only from lava tubes in the Hat Creek Lava flow of northern California. Those remarkably long black anterior structures are chelicerae!!!
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August 23, 2022
04:26 PM PDT
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May 23, 2023
04:36 PM PKT
Description
It was running nearby Pheidole sp ants at home. First time saw it in my area.
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December 27, 2023
12:19 PM PST
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December 27, 2023
12:19 PM PST
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December 27, 2023
12:19 PM PST
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April 30, 2023
10:53 AM PDT
Description
mating pair; female luminescent, male only luminescent after disturbance
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March 30, 2022
06:08 AM UTC
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April 30, 2023
10:57 AM PDT
Description
glowing under its own bioluminescence
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May 25, 2023
11:47 PM UTC
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February 27, 2023
02:50 PM PST
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October 21, 2023
03:56 PM PDT
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November 4, 2023
05:46 PM PDT
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November 4, 2023
05:46 PM PDT
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December 24, 2023
03:34 PM NZDT
Description
Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest
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December 24, 2023
03:34 PM NZDT
Description
Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest, under a fallen Nikau frond.
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February 8, 2021
10:21 AM PST
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September 30, 2023
03:56 AM UTC
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November 13, 2023
03:16 AM UTC
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June 21, 2023
05:18 PM UTC
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June 21, 2023
05:14 PM UTC
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September 24, 2022
05:19 PM PDT
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October 16, 2023
08:08 AM PDT
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May 9, 2019
01:02 AM UTC
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March 17, 2020
06:42 PM PDT
Description
two specimens, photographed in situ under woody debris
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August 13, 2018
07:20 PM PDT
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May 6, 2023
11:21 PM MDT
Description
Under stone in litter, shallow slope under Quercus agrifola.
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November 20, 2023
02:53 PM MST
Description
On soil bank above slow moving creek, in riparian ravine with Quercus agrifolia.
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January 5, 2020
08:59 PM CET
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April 6, 2018
05:08 PM CEST
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March 24, 2020
07:35 PM CET
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December 10, 2023
07:32 AM NZDT
Description
Auckland Entomological Society field trip, 1 October 2023.
Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest.
Larva.
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August 12, 2023
07:30 PM NZST
Description
Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest. At night.
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June 16, 2013
04:06 PM NZST
Description
Margarodidae: Coelostomidia zealandica - Giant Scale Insects
winged male and wingless female, in copula
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July 8, 2023
02:26 PM MDT
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November 21, 2023
12:21 PM NZDT
Description
Soerensenella prehensor mating
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July 22, 2023
11:45 AM PDT
Description
active on N-facing shaded rock outcrop
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May 27, 2020
04:10 AM JST
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November 15, 2018
06:19 PM HST
Description
Under a log on the side of the Bledisloe walk
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September 21, 2019
01:44 PM PDT
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June 22, 2020
09:23 PM UTC
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March 16, 2022
08:28 AM CET
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January 6, 2019
08:38 AM EST
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March 26, 2023
10:53 AM NZDT
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April 22, 2023
10:27 PM NZST
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April 9, 2023
02:29 PM NZST
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July 31, 2022
09:47 AM NZST
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April 21, 2023
10:40 AM NZST
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December 2, 2022
05:56 AM NZDT
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March 29, 2020
07:40 PM +11
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February 5, 2023
05:17 PM NZDT
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April 16, 2023
12:35 PM NZST
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June 8, 2020
12:07 PM NZST
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December 24, 2022
07:11 AM PST
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February 7, 2022
06:31 PM +03
Description
Larva/adult-polyp planktonic stage of a sea anemone.
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May 2, 2022
10:52 PM +03
Description
Spotted on salp remains (very little was left of the salp to aid in identification - probably salpa maxima).
1-1.5cm in lenght.
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August 25, 2022
01:46 AM +03
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December 31, 2022
02:18 AM +03
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January 3, 2023
03:52 AM +03
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January 6, 2023
07:39 PM +03
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January 29, 2019
04:03 PM JST
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January 30, 2019
09:46 AM JST
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February 13, 2019
12:22 PM JST