The Cellar - Feb 25th, 2020 : Bee-ware

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Feb 25th, 2020 : Bee-ware

Most people are aware of European Honey Bees that are so important to food production.
Also familiar with big old Bumblebees, maybe wood eating Carpenter bees, and those asshole wasps. I always see small things
that look like bees but no idea what the are, which is not surprising since we have 4,000 kinds of native bees.

http://cellar.org/img/darkbee1.jpg

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Maryland Biodiversity Project (MBP) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization focused on cataloging all the living things of Maryland. Our goal is to promote education and conservation by helping to build a vibrant nature study community. The project was started in June 2012 by Bill Hubick and Jim Brighton. Our community has cataloged over 18,000 species, including over 10,000 species with photographs, and feature the work of more than 1,000 naturalists and photographers.

Part of their goal is a 112 page Field Manual of Maryland Bees pdf you can download free.

http://cellar.org/img/darkbee2.jpg

When entertaining the neighborhood bees the conversation can get awkward when you don’t know the proper names of their
body parts. For instance you can ask a bee about it’s middle leg where you really shouldn’t ask that of the man next door.

http://cellar.org/img/darkbee3.jpg

The MBP is also cool, about using their stuff for you own project whether it be educational, scientific or just trying to get laid
by impressing someone.

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Public Domain. This book is designed to be modified, extracted from, or reproduced in its entirety by any group for any reason. Multiple copies of the same book with slight variations are completely expected and acceptable. Feel free to distribute or sell as you wish. We especially encourage people to create field guides for their region. There is no need to get in touch with the Collaborative, however, we would appreciate hearing of any corrections and suggestions that will help make the identification of bees more accessible and accurate to all people. We also suggest you add our names to the acknowledgments and add yourself and your collaborators.

http://cellar.org/img/darkbee4.jpg

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The only thing that will make us mad is if you block the free transfer of this information.
The corresponding member of the Collaborative is Sam Droege. sdroege@usgs.gov

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MPB, AKA The Saintly Publisher.
Neat outfit, fun post.
I think the metespecterum may be slightly mis-placed.

Will ya just look at all those words!

Look at 'em? Sure.

Read 'em? Pfft...

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Originally Posted by Diaphone Jim (Post 1047311)

MPB, AKA The Saintly Publisher.
Neat outfit, fun post.
I think the metespecterum may be slightly mis-placed.

I Googled metespecterum and got one hit, your post. :confused:

Kind of fun though, first time I've ever gotten one hit from them.

I think it was a whimsical alteration of the word metepisterum found in last diagram.

I Googled it because I wasn't going to make myself nuts trying to find it in all those words.

Wouldn't have mattered, you're already nuts. :p:

Shhh, the squirrels will hear you.

They're always listening.

My comment of meta... was just a joke, spoiled by my misreading it off the diagram as sexobon pointed out.
I have gotten Google hits referring to Cellar posts before. They are watching.

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 1047476)

I Googled metespecterum and got one hit, your post. :confused:

Kind of fun though, first time I've ever gotten one hit from them.

Remember a thing called Google Whacking?

No, not that, put that thing away.

Google Whacking was where ya entered a two word phrase, without quotation marks, in hopes of receiving exactly one search result.

It's almost impossible now (pretty damn difficult back then), but, back in the day I achieved a Google Whack with the phrase marmalade fetish...

I keep running into every damn thing I google there's a band or product that's grabbed that word or phrase. Then the first page or more is places to buy the shit or reviews of the music, lists of lyrics, etc. I never had to go past the first page before. :facepalm:

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 1047546)

I like this, is it a thing?

forensic leprechaun

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718,000 results

Close.:lol2:

It was a thing, yes.

It was, I did succeed once, though I can't recall my prize pair.

Keep trying!

I think there are sites out there that just contain the contents of dictionaries. I have no idea why. But because they exist, it's impossible to do a Google Whack now. Maybe if you combine words from different foreign languages...

Damnit!

lobster ventriloquist

About 1,130,000 results

Plus, these days Google gives you results that don't contain the terms you searched for, because it's trying to be helpful.

I blame Pinterest.

It’s probably not their fault this time, but you’re usually safe blaming them.

for the record, Pinterest plus anything will not deliver a googlewhack.

on the other hand, fuck pinterest ... 236 million hits.

I agree

About 6,130,000,000