In Sam Droege 's lab at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, pizza box provide storage to thousands of pinned bee specimens. Volunteers Gene Scarpulla (in green) and Tim McMahon peer through microscopes to ID the insects.
Photo:Photography by Robert Wright
Bees are Droege's most recent obsession. In his lab, a general-purpose sink doubles as a bug-washing station.
Photo:Photography by Robert Wright
Once the bugs are washed, Droege deposits them in cheesecloth bags and tucks them in a clothes dryer.
Photo:Photography by Robert Wright
Bee specimens in Sam's collection.
Photo:Photography by Robert Wright
Tha camera setup includes an improvised Styrofoam light tent and black background. The camera moves on a computerized sled, and settings such as shutter speed can be adjusted on a laptop.
Photo:Photography by Robert Wright
Sam lining up the shot with live view on the laptop. The bee is very small on the pic in the foreground.
Photo:Photography by Robert Wright
Droege's macro photos od bees have several hundred thousand online fans.
Photo:Photograph by Sam Droege
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