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I think this is a leaf cutter Bee. on a dead tree trunk I have left in my wild garden. My bee hotel has been very busy this year
A series of photos of a leaf cutter bee.
Inside each cell she will lay an egg and provide it with a mixture of pollen and nectar on which to feed.
The bee then chews a section of leaf into a pulp and mixed with saliva she creates the walls of a cosy cell for her offspring. This she will do until the cell is full.
Her young will develop over winter and emerge the following year.
My Garden
August 2021
Wanted a life at sea even though home town is as far away from any ocean as you can get.....
Cutter V1 original figure
Having spotted three boxcars to Stokely track 2 in downtown Lodi, Geep 60 winds through the S curve at Tokay and Main Streets en route back to the main line at Lodi Junction. In this 1985 moment, a slow economy has CCT down to one assignment. Known as The Local, it makes the 88- mile round trip from Stockton to Polk (Fruitridge-Sacramento) as well as the 1.6 mile jaunt into Lodi on the appropriately named Lodi Branch. Today, the street running and downtown trackage is gone as the branch has been cut back to the eastern edge of State Route 99. However, four active shippers remain on the short stretch between Lodi Junction and the highway, including Pacific Coast Producers' huge warehouse which sports two high capacity spurs capable of loading upwards of 20 cars, many more than were ever pulled from this old downtown plant. Dave Stanley photo ©2025
n 1913 local merchant Tomas Beban purchased the cutter Tomasito, currently outside the Maritime Museum in Ushuaia, Argentina, for trading activites along Beagle Channel.
My step-daughter and I use these heart cookie cutters once a year. But they stay up on the kitchen windowsill all year round, perhaps to remind us of the three happy hearts that live here. Perhaps to remind us that even though one might be a little redder and straighter, another might be a little artsy, another might be a bit twirly, we're all the same...at heart. Or perhaps simply because I'm a lazy housekeeper and never bother putting them away.
This is for the groups Grateful Daze and Gratitude Project, for which I'm attempting to post, for the month of November, a daily photo of something for which I'm grateful.
The Cutter is a hand tool used to cut peat from less wet, shallower bogs. This means the peat it reveals is drier and therefore more easily burnt producing a whisky that has a medium-heavy smokiness, in this case, with a phenol content of 20.5 ppm. ~ ancnoc.com/whiskies/archived-collection/peaty/cutter/
Whisky-tasting Day / Social Distancing Day 230, 10/29/2020, Sunnyside, NY
Panasonic DMC-G2
LEICA DG SUMMILUX 25/F1.4
ƒ/1.4 25.0 mm 1/60 320
On my way to Cruden Bay I stopped off to take a few photos of the old parish church, this tree stuck at the back of the cemetery seemed to be recently serviced and looking sorry for itself , I captured the image as it provoked the usual negative thoughts I harbour when I see a tree trunk hacked, guess it had some sort of disease , only reason to me as to why someone has decided to take a chainsaw to it ,still boils my blood, whats the proactive rather than reactive approach to prevent this scenario?.
We have a lot of projects going on where I live. From trimming trees to building new fences in the complex.
Megachile willughbiella: Not afraid of cities. A common leaf cutter of gardens and disturbed areas across Eurasia. Some bees just aren't that picky and where they get their pollen.
Photo license: CC-BY-SA. This photo can be reused as you wish. When doing so, please credit the creator (USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab) and the source (Naturalis Biodiversity Center) and adaptations must be shared under the same terms. This one found in the Netherlands
The specimen in this photo is provided by Naturalis Biodiversity Center in The Netherlands. For inquiries please contact: Frederique Bakker, email: frederique.bakker@naturalis.nl.
This image is part of the photo series ‘Cool bees of The Netherlands’. For more information: marten.schoonman@naturalis.nl
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Best over all technical resource for photo stacking:
Art Photo Book: Bees: An Up-Close Look at Pollinators Around the World:
www.amazon.com/Bees-Up-Close-Pollinators-Around-World/dp/...
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
www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections
PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques:
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or
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Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:
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including Valentine's Day, birthday, & biscuit cutters ... some of these I've had since I was 18yo, many are vintage & from thrift stores or garage sales, the rest were bought on sale or clearance ... this is the reason why I wanted so many shallow drawers in my baking island. 🍪