•PETER HENDERSON 6c CO., NEW YORK 103 BEGONIA (Fibrous-Rooted). (For Tuberous-Rooted rarieties, see page 78.) Vernon. A first-class bedding or pot plant. Flowers waxr blood scarlet, borne in immense quantities un- til killed by frost. Leaves turn red; when plants are bedded out will continue to flower Pkt. li) Semperflorens. .ZuluKiD/i.) Inthestyle of B. Ver- non. The foliage and flower stems are dark black- red ; flowers brilliant scarlet 10 Sex. Large, ornamental leaves of dark green bronze. gold, red, etc 2.5 BELLIS, Of DOUBLE DAISY. (For Giant varieties, seepage 78.) Well-known favorites for edgings and low beds. X- though perennials, they will flower the same season it the seed is sown early. V^ foot. Doable Mixed. AH col..rs Pkt. 5 Double Qnilled, Mixed Colors. The petals are as n'Uud us kuittiiiii needles 10 BIGNONIA. GBANDIFZ.OBA, or "TBUMFET CSEEFEB. ' ' Hardy perennial climber of rapid and luxuriant growth, very picturesque and effective ; grown on old trees, arbors, walls, etc. Handsome large clusters of orange-red flcnvers. 40 to 60 feet Fkt. 10 BRACHYCOME, or "SWAN RIVER DAISY." Beautiful annual forming a close compact plant, with large single blue or white flowers, borne freely all summer, -i foot. Mixed Colors Pkt. 5 BROWALLIA (Amettyst). Handsome annuals, with blue or white flowers cora- pletel.v studding the bushy plants during the whole summer : fine for garden beds in summer or pot culture in winter. Hi feet. Mixed Colors Pkt. 5 Giant Br owallia. t.'.peciosa Major.) .See page 79.) BRYONOPSIS. A beautiful summer climber, with palmate leaves: yellow flowers followed by pretty cherry-like, green fruits, which change to bright scarlet marbled with white. 10 feet: annual Pkt. 5 CACALIA, or " TASSEL ELOWERS." Very pretty, summer-flowering garden plants. Prized for cutting, li-ij feet; annual. Mixed Colors Pkt. ." CALAMPELIS, or ECCREMOCARPUS. A beautiful annual climber. Trained to a trellis it is highly ornamental throughout the summer : bright orange tubular flowers. 10 feet Pkt. 10 CALANDRINIA GRANDIFLORA. Beautiful dwarf garden annual : in the sunshine the large rose.olored flowers expand into a perfect blaze of beauty. 1 foot Pkt.o CALCEOLARIA. Mixed Colors. (Seepage 79.) Pkt. 25 CALENDULA. Dwarf, bushy annuals, blooming abundantly until frost : of easy culture; indispensable for summer gar- den or for pot culture in the winter. 1 foot. Double Sulphur. Light lemon yellow pkt. 5 Queen of Trianon. Canary with maroon :?ntre....5 Pongei, fl.. pi. Double white 5 Meteor, Yellow, striped with orange a Prince of Orang'e. Orange, striped light yellow.. ...5 Pure Gold. Large double golden flowers 5 FAVOBITE. Light yellow, striped white 10 ( For .Vew " King" Calendulas, .see page 79.1 t — _■ C..NTERr.rRY BELLS. CANART-BrRD VINE. CALLIOPSIS. Showy garden annuals, with large bright flowers borne in great profusion from earl.Y summer until frost, and succeeding everywhere. Height about 2 feet. (For Hardy Calliopsis. see Coreopsis.) Atrosangniinea. Dark crimson Pkt. 5 Golden Wave. Compact, bushy plants, covered with golden blossoms, 2 inches across, with small dark centres 5 Coronata. Ijarge flowers on long stems, rich yellow, slightly spotted red, splendid for cutting 3 Finest Mixed 3 Double Calliopsis. Double, golden yellow, with maroon sjiots 5 Dwarf Double. Flowers double and large, deep yel- low, with garnet blotches 5 Tom Thumb, or Nana Compacta. Round, com- l)act, bushy plants. 1 foot high by 1 foot across, and a perfect mass of bloom. Mixed Colors 5 Imported Collection of 12 separate Calliopsis, 40c. CAMPANULA. Hardy perennial favorites, bearing large bell and saucer shaped flowers in profusion. Pyramidalis, Mixed. . grand sort known as the ■• Pyramid 111 Hell Flower." al)Out 4 feet high, of ele- gant, iiyraniidal form, bearing thousands of exqui- site bell-sliaped. blue or white flowers Pkt. 5 Pyramidalis compacta alba. .1 dwarf, sturdy form of the above with large, white flowers 10 CANTERBURY BELLS. Very ornamental g.arden plants of easiest culture; hardy biennial, 2^ feet high, producing large, bell- shaped flowers of exquisite colors. Sing-le Mixed Pkt. 5 Double Mixed 5 j Double White 5 " Blue 5 " Bose 5 " laavender o " Striped 5 "Cup and Saucer" Canterbury Bells. (Cam- panula Calycantbema.) Beautiful flowers 3 inches in length, saucers 3 to 4 inches across. The plants form perfect pyramids of liloom about 24 inches high, and they bear frequentl.v from 100 to 200 of these exquisite blossoms for weeks during the early summer. Calycanthema, Mixed 5 " Bose, io I Blue 5 " White,." I Striped 5 CANARY-BIRD VINE. A rapid-growing, summer-climbing annual, growing 10 to 1.5 feet high. It will cover trellis work in the most graceful manner, producing hundreds of its pretty fringed bright yellow flowers, which resemble a canary bird with expanded wings Pkt. 5 CANDYTUFT. .For Dew rarieties, see page 80.) Dwarf annuals, flowering profusely throughout the whole season; great favorites for beds, edgings, pots and borders: the plants are very fairl.v covered with blossoms, and of the easiest culture. 12 inches high. Ptirple Pkt. 5 I White Fragrant 5 White 5 White Socket 5 Crimson 5 Mixed Colors. Peroz., 20 5 CANDYTUFT, HABDT. Handsome, compact- grnwiiig. hardy perennial plants, admirably adapted for
Subspecies or Species (and what is this bee doing in Delaware)? (Grammar side bar: I am guessing that the "?" goes outside the parens? Good thing my Mom never reads anything I write giving that she was a teacher). Here we have something that meets the definition of Andrena cressonii subspecies kansensis. In my book (rife with grammatical errors) this seems like a species to me, as it appears to consistently having reddish orange legs and more extensive hair bands than its nominate cousin A. c. cressonii which is less hairy and has no red on its legs (and is common as dirt). A c. k. is a being of the Midwestern plains (or what is left of them) and I have never seen one in the East until looking at Matt Sarver's collection from Delaware, of all places, where it was collected off of Willow. Delaware is admittedly a small state that most people hold no opinion about, but it does have A. c. k. to its name. Photo by Elizabeth Panner. 16:31, 7 May 2021 (UTC)16:31, 7 May 2021 (UTC){{{{{{0}}}}}}16:31, 7 May 2021 (UTC)16:31, 7 May 2021 (UTC) 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 We Are Made One with What We Touch and See We are resolved into the supreme air, We are made one with what we touch and see, With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair, With our young lives each spring impassioned tree Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change. - Oscar Wilde You can also follow us on Instagram - account = USGSBIML Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen: Best over all technical resource for photo stacking:
www.extreme-macro.co.uk/ 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
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:
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Bee Swap. Do you trade in bees? Probably not, but there is a world (a very small world) where people try to put names on bees and this world is aswirl with bee swapping. That insular world trucks almost entirely in dead bees on pins, because to id a bee you have to look at all sorts of minute things under a microscope. Not so easy. On Andrena species (like this A. lapponica that was collected in Slovakia by Peter Šima where he notes it was collected in a "Beech forest interior, clearing with Salix sp. in bloom, close to Stužická rieka river" ) the characters you look at might be: the shape of legs, the length of the second antennal segment compared to the first segment, the color of the hairs on the face, the length of the mandibles, how close the simple ocelli are to the back of the head, The amount of branching of the hairs on the hind legs, and a plethora of technical and therefore jargon filled characters that don't leave the rooms of bee heads. Because bee id is hard, this small bee world is constantly sending specimens around the "real" world for study, dna extraction, second opinions, all part of a mostly old fashioned world of sharing. If you have a microscope, you can join the club. Just sayin'. Photo by Cole Cheng. 16:31, 7 May 2021 (UTC)16:31, 7 May 2021 (UTC){{{{{{0}}}}}}16:31, 7 May 2021 (UTC)16:31, 7 May 2021 (UTC) 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 We Are Made One with What We Touch and See We are resolved into the supreme air, We are made one with what we touch and see, With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair, With our young lives each spring impassioned tree Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change. - Oscar Wilde You can also follow us on Instagram - account = USGSBIML Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen: Best over all technical resource for photo stacking:
www.extreme-macro.co.uk/ 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:
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