Finally continuing the bee retrospective, after honeybees and bumblebees last week; I have a tentative ID for more of these than I thought.
Ground-nesting bee throwing a dandelion seed out of the way before getting back to business:
Entrance to a ground nest:
Bee on yellow coneflower:
Resin bee on bee balm:
Resin bees on autumn joy sedum:
Some kind of metallic bee on tiny monster geranium:
Paper wasps on stiff goldenrod:
Great black wasp, skittish and way bigger than the honeybees that were also climbing this culver’s root. This photo is in shade; it looked iridescent blue in the sunshine:
Wasp on stiff goldenrod:
Wasp on baptisia:
Weevil wasp on pearly everlasting:
There were four green sweat bees crammed inside this hollyhock blossom. One bee decided to sleep between two petal “sheets” instead:
Megachile centuncularis on baptisia:
Bee in a squash blossom:
Unknown on golden alexanders:
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