<div dir="ltr"><div class="" style=""><div class="" style="color:rgb(55,62,77);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span>All:</span></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(55,62,77);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px;white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr"><span><br></span></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(55,62,77);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px;white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr"><span>After looking at Steven Falk's fabulous Bee Flickr site.I discovered that he used the new "collections" feature to organize, map, and talk about his pictures. </span></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(55,62,77);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px;white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr"><span><br></span></div><div class="" style="direction:ltr"><span><font color="#373e4d" face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:18px;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/63075200@N07/collections">https://www.flickr.com/photos/63075200@N07/collections</a></span></font><br></span></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(55,62,77);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px;white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr"><span><br></span></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(55,62,77);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px;white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr"><span>I have now mimicked his site for the Bees of Maryland, which will have relevance for most people doing bee work throughout Eastern North American and should be of interest to those elsewhere who are fascinated by bees. </span></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(55,62,77);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px;white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr"><span><br></span></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(55,62,77);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px;white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr"><span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections">https://www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections</a><br></span></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(55,62,77);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px;white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr"><span><br></span></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(55,62,77);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px;white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr">We present photographs grouped by species and provide the taxonomic structure above those groups of species pictures so you can easily find your way around, locate the pictures you are looking for, see what pictures are missing, download what you want, and, ultimately, read about them as we develop the structure further for ease of use. </div><div class="" style="color:rgb(55,62,77);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px;white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr"><br></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(55,62,77);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px;white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr">We also provide a bit of information about each of the Genera focusing on status and identification (the lab's emphasis). As we have time we will add more pictures and more information for the species...and create other collections for North America north of Mexico. </div><div class="" style="color:rgb(55,62,77);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px;white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr"><br></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(55,62,77);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px;white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr">In the meantime we hope you will find this useful and we encourage you to send in corrections and additions. </div><div class="" style="color:rgb(55,62,77);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px;white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr"><br></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(55,62,77);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px;white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr">Many thanks to the technicians, interns, and volunteers in our lab who helped put this collection together, along with the many picture-takers, photoshoppers, and bee groomers.<br></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(55,62,77);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px;white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr"><br></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(55,62,77);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px;white-space:pre-wrap">Please feel free to distribute the link above and to use any of these Flickr photographs in any way you please.</div></div><div class="" style=""><div class="" style="color:rgb(55,62,77);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px;white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr"><span><br></span></div><div class="" style="direction:ltr"><span><font color="#373e4d" face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:18px;white-space:pre-wrap">Sam Droege <a href="mailto:sdroege@usgs.gov">sdroege@usgs.gov</a>
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
<a href="Http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov">Http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov</a>
I died for beauty but was scarce
Adjusted in the tomb,
When one who died for truth was lain
In an adjoining room.
He questioned softly why I failed?
"For beauty," I replied.
"And I for truth,--the two are one;
We brethren are," he said.
And so, as kinsmen met a night,
We talked between the rooms,
Until the moss had reached our lips,
And covered up our names.
-Dickinson</span></font><br></span></div></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(55,62,77);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="" style="direction:ltr"><br></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><i><b>Bees are Not Optional</b></i></div><div style="text-align:center"><i><b><font size="1">Apes sunt et non liberum</font><br></b></i></div></div></div>
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