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Its Hard to Completely Destroy Nature Sometimes. Here is a rather ugly set of pictures of an ugly looking bee that was pulled out of a malaise trap without cleaning it first (Note: a malaise trap is a big tent thing made of netting that funnels flying insects into a collection head where they expire in alcohol or glycol and are pawed over later by Entomologists) (Another Note: Entomologists do not like to look at unclean Malaise samples, its hard to figure out what is going on and it is just not an aesthetic experience). OK, despite all that complaining this is one rare bee. A parasitic Lasioglossum called L. izawsum (fun name). This is probably only the third locality known for this species (in the world, people). Yet, where is it located? Right outside the DC beltway in an old marsh area along the Potomac River that was almost completely destroyed by a big gravel operation (back when you could just suck gravel out of a marsh in a river if you wanted to), prior to that it was diked, grazed and dumped into for centuries. Only remnants of marsh were left and to the interior a strip of junky woods filled with rubble and beyond...miles of houses and suburbs. There have been restoration efforts and, while altered, it appears to have done some magical self repair. Plenty of things live there again. It is here that this rare bee magically appears and while I have no time to tell all the stories, the marsh has bunches of more rare bees. How cool is that? 16:27, 7 May 2021 (UTC)16:27, 7 May 2021 (UTC){{{{{{0}}}}}}16:27, 7 May 2021 (UTC)16:27, 7 May 2021 (UTC) All photographs are public domain, feel free to download and use as you wish.
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| Source | Lasioglossum izawsum, f, dyke marsh vaside_2021-02-16-14.36.47 ZS PMax UDR |
| Author | USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab from Beltsville, Maryland, USA |
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This image is in the public domain in the United States because it only contains materials that originally came from the United States Geological Survey, an agency of the United States Department of the Interior. For more information, see the official USGS copyright policy.
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Sam Droege at https://flickr.com/photos/54563451@N08/50997808413. It was reviewed on 7 May 2021 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the Public Domain Mark. |
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