I took so many bee and wasp photos in 2015 that I’ve decided to split them up. But since I am not an entomologist, I expect to get some of these wrong. As I’m learning more about ground-nesting bees in particular, I’m realizing that what I assume are honeybees and bumblebees might not be.
bachelor’s button:
coreopsis:
caught in a milkweed blossom:
fighting hard to get free:
butterfly weed:
baptisia:
sleeping on purple coneflower:
under a milkweed leaf:
sleeping in a sunflower:
bee balm:
a different bumblebee on bee balm:
stiff goldenrod:
competing over a hollyhock:
climbing into turtlehead:
orange-belted, or tricolored, bumblebee, on baptisia:
golden alexanders:
yellow coneflower:
spiderwort:
crystallofolia 