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Ah, this is the duck spider....so named by Anders, the tech who took the photo. It is duckish, but it is not actually named the "duck spider". Fact is we don't know what spider it is. It is the sort of thing that ends up in few flicks of our nets in the globally rare Pinus rigida forests of the Beltsville Ag center.
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Well, hmmm, this Coreabus beetle species form Kruger National Park in South Africa, looked better under the scope than when we photographed it. Still, its workable and our only shot. Nice hair pattern. A bup (Buprestid) that is dark and you can just barely make out its glintyness and surface sculpturing. Thanks to Jonathan Mawdsley for the photo and Anders Croft (no judgement).
This little red bee (Protandrena abdominalis) was collected on spotted beebalm.
It seems to be the only species of plant, with the possibility of some close relatives being involved, that this bee finds worthy of collecting pollen from. If you Google images of spotted beebalm you'll see that it is quite the complicated and rather ornate flowering plant. It's a little bit difficult to figure out what is going on in terms of why it has evolved all these lovely associated ornaments, but it has to be an interesting story. Quite the handsome insect, I think. Photograph by Anders Croft.
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Bee of Yosemite.
This is Bombus bifarius, a male (see all the yellow on the face shot? that is a good indication of a male bumble bee....not all species show this pattern, but it is a general trend. Females tend to have a nearly all black face with perhaps a topknot of yellow hairs, but I digress).
Our friend here is a Western species, common in wetter meadowy areas, usually at higher elevations. Prairies, deserts, and sage flats are not its thing. Collected as part of Claire Kremen's study of the post fire landscape of Yosemite National Park. Picture by Anders Croft.
