Anthophora terminalis, f, face, Cleveland, Ohio
Anthophora terminalis. Orange butt. Three teeth. Internal wing cells almost entirely free of hairs (why are there hairs, sometimes hundreds of hairs, on many bees wings? Good question and perhaps answering that question would gain you the Nobel Peace Prize, but more likely it would simply generate mild curiosity among a very small academic crowd, unless your organization had a publicist who would likely hype it in a way that would get a lot of google hits so that the publicist would get a bigger bonus at the end of the year and reporters could interview you and write articles like "Do hairy wings make bees buzz?" or some other demoralizing, pun infested article that shows how very little respect you command compared to an astronomer (who, btw, discovering something so very far away that even the astrologists believe it never did and never will have any influence over our lives)). Photo by Anders Croft (studying to be a marine biologist, a semi-serious profession).
We Are Made One with What We Touch and See
We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
- Oscar Wilde. Original public domain image from Flickr