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Hello Sam!

                Please guide me about any good digital camera. I want to take snaps of bees sitting on flowers from a considrable distance so that its activitiy may not be disturbed. Please guide me in sence of digital and optical zooms.

 

Thanks

 

 Asif Sajjad

PhD student

BZ Univ. Pakistan

I can recommend the following as a high-send solution:  a digital SLR
camera with a good macro lens and a flash system.  In specific, I use
Nikon D200, a Nikon 105mm macro lens, and the flash system that
mounts on the front of the lens.  This gives a good working distance
from the bee, and good depth of field. A less expensive option is
something like one of the Nikon Coolpix models that has a macro mode;
the disadvantage is that you have to be pretty close to the bee to
get a picture.

David Inouye

At 06:14 AM 8/20/2007, you wrote:

>I also hvae been looking for a good digital camera, but I have no
>problem getting up close, please let us both know if you can suggest something.

All:

My lab will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on September 19th to anyone who wants to identify specimens of bees (from eastern North America) or learn to identify bees.  Please send me an email or call me if you are coming so I can track the number of people who will be here.  I will be available during that whole time to help with id's and the identification process.

I am going to try to have an open lab at least once a month through the school year as well as 2 week long bee identification workshops.....to be announced later.

If you are coming from out of town you can stay at our house the night before and after.

Directions to the lab are below.

sam

                                               
Sam Droege  Sam_Droege@USGS.GOV                      
w 301-497-5840 h 301-390-7759 fax 301-497-5624
USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
BARC-EAST, BLDG 308, RM 124 10300 Balt. Ave., Beltsville, MD  20705
Http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov

Concerning the bees and the flowers
In the fields and the gardens and bowers,
   You will note at a glace
   That their ways of romance
Haven't any resemblance to ours.

Directions to the  USGS Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab

Sam Droege's Work Number:  301 497 5840
                    Home Number:  301 390 7759


Directions from the intersection of the Washington Beltway (495) and the Baltimore Washington Parkway (295).

Travel NORTH outside of the Beltway towards Baltimore on 295.

In approximately 5 miles and about 3 exits you will come to an exit for Powdermill Road

Take the single exit ramp to Powdermill Road and turn LEFT

(NOTE:  The  main campus and the visitor's center for Patuxent Wildlife Research Center is to the Right, but our lab is located on Beltsville Agriculture Research Center
 property and therefore you must turn LEFT towards Beltsville)

Travel about 1.5 miles.

On your right you will see Entomology Road, this is a marker that your turn is coming soon.

Take the next right onto Center Road.

Travel to the last lab building on the left (there are no lab buildings on the right).

This will be building 308 which is very clearly marked.

Park in the parking lot out front.

At the door hit the button on the black box, wait for a reply, and then tell them you are here to visit me and they will let you in.

Alternatively, if someone is going in or out you can go directly in.

I am  in room 124.

Door's usually open.

Dave, I have been working on bees in New Mexico.  Our ranges probably
overlap quite a bit.  I am working out of the Sevilleta.  So far I have a
local key to morpho types of Dialictus and am working on a local key for
Anthophora.  I have also gotten Melissodes to morphotype.  All with the
help of Terry Griswold et al.  I am up to over 150 species just from the
Sevilleta.  I would love more material from the Chihuahuan especially
within New Mexico.  If you ever get over to Albuquerque, I would like to
see what you have.  Karen Wetherill

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 David_r_smith@... wrote:

> Sam,
>
> I will be helping teach a course at the FWS NCTC in Shepherdstown that
> week and can possibly sneak away in the afternoon.  I might take you up on
> staying at the house that night.
>
> When are you going to develop a bee ID class for the NCTC.  There is an
> excellent aquatic insect class I took a few years ago.  I haven't stopped
> keying insects since.
>
> Most important, when are you going to develop species keys for western
> bees.  I am actively collecting them.  I set pan traps when I go in the
> field then check them on my return, just like a rodent snaptrapline
> without having to worry about pinched fingers in traps.
>
> Talk to you later,
>
> Dave Smith
> U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
> 323 N. Leroux St., Suite 101
> Flagstaff, AZ  86001
> (928) 226-0614 x 109
> "Field data is the best cure for a precarious prediction"  Dave Rosgen

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To: beemonitoring@yahoogroups.com
From: David_r_smith@...
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 09:49:27 -0600
Subject: Re: [beemonitoring] New Key to the bee genera of Eastern Canada

No comment from those of us in western North America

Dave Smith
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
323 N. Leroux St., Suite 101
Flagstaff, AZ  86001
(928) 226-0614 x 109
"Field data is the best cure for a precarious prediction"  Dave Rosgen

Dave Smith and other westerners,

Slowly but surely the western guides are being built one genus at a time.  I would love to have you try them out and give me feedback.:)

Kim Huntzinger
eTaxonomist
Western Bee Guide Developer - DiscoverLife.org
kimberly_huntzinger@...

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To: beemonitoring@yahoogroups.com

From: David_r_smith@...

Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 09:49:27 -0600

Subject: Re: [beemonitoring] New Key to the bee genera of Eastern Canada

No comment from those of us in western North America

Dave Smith

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

323 N. Leroux St., Suite 101

Flagstaff, AZ  86001

(928) 226-0614 x 109

"Field data is the best cure for a precarious prediction"  Dave Rosgen

---

Windows Live Hotmail and Microsoft Office Outlook – together at last. Get it now!

I would be interested in western keys too.  Karen

On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, David Inouye wrote:

>
> Which genera are available now?
>
> At 12:02 PM 10/3/2007, you wrote:
>
>       Dave Smith and other westerners,
>
>       Slowly but surely the western guides are being built one
>       genus at a time.  I would love to have you try them out and
>       give me feedback.:)
>
>       Kim Huntzinger
>       eTaxonomist
>       Western Bee Guide Developer - DiscoverLife.org
>       kimberly_huntzinger@...
>
>
>
________________________________________________________________________________
>             To: beemonitoring@yahoogroups.com
>             From: David_r_smith@...
>             Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 09:49:27 -0600
>             Subject: Re: [beemonitoring] New Key to the bee genera
>             of Eastern Canada
>
>
>             No comment from those of us in western North America
>
>             Dave Smith
>             U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
>             323 N. Leroux St., Suite 101
>             Flagstaff, AZ  86001
>             (928) 226-0614 x 109
>             "Field data is the best cure for a precarious
>             prediction"  Dave Rosgen
>
>
>
________________________________________________________________________________
>       Windows Live Hotmail and Microsoft Office Outlook – together
>       at last. Get it now!
>
>
>

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To: beemonitoring@yahoogroups.com
From: karen@...
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 18:21:32 -0600
Subject: RE: [beemonitoring] New Key to the bee genera of Eastern Canada

I would be interested in western keys too. Karen

On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, David Inouye wrote:

>
> Which genera are available now?
>
> At 12:02 PM 10/3/2007, you wrote:
>
> Dave Smith and other westerners,
>
> Slowly but surely the western guides are being built one
> genus at a time. I would love to have you try them out and
> give me feedback.:)
>
> Kim Huntzinger
> eTaxonomist
> Western Bee Guide Developer - DiscoverLife.org
> kimberly_huntzinger@hotmail.com
>
>
> __________________________________________________________
> To: beemonitoring@yahoogroups.com
> From: David_r_smith@fws.gov
> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 09:49:27 -0600
> Subject: Re: [beemonitoring] New Key to the bee genera
> of Eastern Canada
>
>
> No comment from those of us in western North America
>
> Dave Smith
> U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
> 323 N. Leroux St., Suite 101
> Flagstaff, AZ 86001
> (928) 226-0614 x 109
> "Field data is the best cure for a precarious
> prediction" Dave Rosgen
>
>
> __________________________________________________________
> Windows Live Hotmail and Microsoft Office Outlook – together
> at last. Get it now!
>
>
>

All:

Rebekah Nelson's lovely line drawings of bee body parts are now online at the Discoverlife bee page:

http://www.discoverlife.org/20/q?search=Apoidea

sam

Sam Droege  Sam_Droege@USGS.GOV                      
w 301-497-5840 h 301-390-7759 fax 301-497-5624
USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
BARC-EAST, BLDG 308, RM 124 10300 Balt. Ave., Beltsville, MD  20705
Http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov

In nature's infinite book of secrecy
A little I can read
Antony and Cleopatra - Shakespeare

All:

Rebekah Nelson's lovely line drawings of bee body parts are now online at the Discoverlife bee page:

http://www.discoverlife.org/20/q?search=Apoidea

sam

Sam Droege  Sam_Droege@...                     
w 301-497-5840 h 301-390-7759 fax 301-497-5624
USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
BARC-EAST, BLDG 308, RM 124 10300 Balt. Ave., Beltsville, MD  20705
Http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov

In nature's infinite book of secrecy
A little I can read
Antony and Cleopatra - Shakespeare

Sam,

This is terrrific. Please sign me up for the week. What a great
opportunity.

Thanks,

Erik Oberg
Acting Natural Resource
Management Specialist
George Washington
Memorial Parkway
703 289-2542 office
202 439-7328 cell
703 289-2546 fax




                       Sam Droege
                       <sdroege@...>        To:      
Beemonitoring@yahoogroups.com
                       Sent by:                  cc:       (bcc: Erik
Oberg/GWMP/NPS)
                       beemonitoring@yaho        Subject:  [beemonitoring]
Species Level Bee Identification Course - December
                       ogroups.com                10-14 2007


                       10/23/2007 10:01
                       AM
                       Please respond to
                       beemonitoring






All:

Rob Jean and I will again be hosting a bee identification workshop at USGS
Patuxent Wildlife Research Center.  The dates for this Fall's workshop will
be December 10-14, 2007.  A flier with all the pertinent information is
attached and will be posted to the web site.  Similar to last year there is
no charge and it is on a first-come first serve basis.  The emphasis is on
learning to identify Eastern North American bees to species. There are
currently 8 slots open.

Email me if you have questions.

Thanks

sam



Sam Droege  Sam_Droege@...
w 301-497-5840 h 301-390-7759 fax 301-497-5624
USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
BARC-EAST, BLDG 308, RM 124 10300 Balt. Ave., Beltsville, MD  20705
Http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov

         The Tuft of Flowers

I went to turn the grass once after one
Who mowed it in the dew before the sun.

The dew was gone that made his blade so keen
Before I came to view the levelled scene.

I looked for him behind an isle of trees;
I listened for his whetstone on the breeze.

But he had gone his way, the grass all mown,
And I must be, as he had been,—alone,

As all must be,' I said within my heart,
Whether they work together or apart.'

But as I said it, swift there passed me by
On noiseless wing a 'wildered butterfly,

Seeking with memories grown dim o'er night
Some resting flower of yesterday's delight.

And once I marked his flight go round and round,
As where some flower lay withering on the ground.

And then he flew as far as eye could see,
And then on tremulous wing came back to me.

I thought of questions that have no reply,
And would have turned to toss the grass to dry;

But he turned first, and led my eye to look
At a tall tuft of flowers beside a brook,

A leaping tongue of bloom the scythe had spared
Beside a reedy brook the scythe had bared.

I left my place to know them by their name,
Finding them butterfly weed when I came.

The mower in the dew had loved them thus,
By leaving them to flourish, not for us,

Nor yet to draw one thought of ours to him.
But from sheer morning gladness at the brim.

The butterfly and I had lit upon,
Nevertheless, a message from the dawn,

That made me hear the wakening birds around,
And hear his long scythe whispering to the ground,

And feel a spirit kindred to my own;
So that henceforth I worked no more alone;

But glad with him, I worked as with his aid,
And weary, sought at noon with him the shade;

And dreaming, as it were, held brotherly speech
With one whose thought I had not hoped to reach.

Men work together,' I told him from the heart,
Whether they work together or apart.'

       - Robert Frost


  (See attached file: Fall 2007 Workshop Daily Schedule.doc)

Hi Sam,
    I would like to attend the bee id workshop.  Is it ok, since I
attended the one in April?  Work on the Boston Harbor Islands went well
this year, I'll be spending a good amount of time working on those bees
this winter.  Hope you had a good field season.
Best,
Sean


Sam Droege wrote:


>All:
>
>Rob Jean and I will again be hosting a bee identification workshop at
USGS
>Patuxent Wildlife Research Center.  The dates for this Fall's workshop
>will be December 10-14, 2007.  A flier with all the pertinent
information
>is attached and will be posted to the web site.  Similar to last year
>there is no charge and it is on a first-come first serve basis.  The
>emphasis is on learning to identify Eastern North American bees to
>species. There are currently 8 slots open.
>
>Email me if you have questions.
>
>Thanks
>
>sam
>
>
>
>Sam Droege  Sam_Droege@...
>w 301-497-5840 h 301-390-7759 fax 301-497-5624
>USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
>BARC-EAST, BLDG 308, RM 124 10300 Balt. Ave., Beltsville, MD  20705
>Http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov
>
>        The Tuft of Flowers
>
>I went to turn the grass once after one
>Who mowed it in the dew before the sun.
>
>The dew was gone that made his blade so keen
>Before I came to view the levelled scene.
>
>I looked for him behind an isle of trees;
>I listened for his whetstone on the breeze.
>
>But he had gone his way, the grass all mown,
>And I must be, as he had been,?alone,
>
>As all must be,' I said within my heart,
>Whether they work together or apart.'
>
>But as I said it, swift there passed me by
>On noiseless wing a 'wildered butterfly,
>
>Seeking with memories grown dim o'er night
>Some resting flower of yesterday's delight.
>
>And once I marked his flight go round and round,
>As where some flower lay withering on the ground.
>
>And then he flew as far as eye could see,
>And then on tremulous wing came back to me.
>
>I thought of questions that have no reply,
>And would have turned to toss the grass to dry;
>
>But he turned first, and led my eye to look
>At a tall tuft of flowers beside a brook,
>
>A leaping tongue of bloom the scythe had spared
>Beside a reedy brook the scythe had bared.
>
>I left my place to know them by their name,
>Finding them butterfly weed when I came.
>
>The mower in the dew had loved them thus,
>By leaving them to flourish, not for us,
>
>Nor yet to draw one thought of ours to him.
>But from sheer morning gladness at the brim.
>
>The butterfly and I had lit upon,
>Nevertheless, a message from the dawn,
>
>That made me hear the wakening birds around,
>And hear his long scythe whispering to the ground,
>
>And feel a spirit kindred to my own;
>So that henceforth I worked no more alone;
>
>But glad with him, I worked as with his aid,
>And weary, sought at noon with him the shade;
>
>And dreaming, as it were, held brotherly speech
>With one whose thought I had not hoped to reach.
>
>Men work together,' I told him from the heart,
>Whether they work together or apart.'
>
>      - Robert Frost


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Daily Schedule.doc
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Good afternoon Sam:
This is German I I would like to attend to the Native bee Identification
Workshop, please sign me in.
Regards,
German

FYI for those who might be interested in attending and will be in the Delaware area in January

<<Bees and Pollination Workshop.doc>>

Heather Harmon
Entomologist

Delaware Department of Agriculture

Plant Industries

2320 S. DuPont Highway Dover, DE 19901

302-698-4588