Lasioglossum albipes, f, face, france

This is one of the common European sweat bees, collected in France by Sarah Kocher. The subject of a number of studies that investigates the relationship between geographic location and this bee's level of eusociality (coloniality). 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 Best over all technical resource for photo stackingextreme-macro.co.ukUSGSBIML 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.