This thread is a beautiful thing......

It is! Thank-you for starting it.

Yes, it is magnificent!

Here is something about bees I didn't know before.

Hungry bumble bees make plants flower early by cutting holes in their leaves

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05 ... aves?rss=1

A black swallowtail on pentas.

Ah ... my favorite swallowtail.

Don’t know what kind of bee this is, but it is small.

Is that milkweed?

Bumblebee on salvia.

Roper, the little bee on the butterfly weed looks like a mason bee.

Nan, they are smaller than I expected.

Spooky, it is milkweed. My favorite one because I like the bright flowers.

Monarch on Mexican Bird of Paradise...

How pretty. That looks like a neat plant too.

Here's a tiny "sweat bee". In the greenhouse I thought it was a leaf miner fly, gave it a swat and knocked it out. I put it in the dish to have a look then realized it was a bee... I thought I'd killed it. Went to get the camera and when I came back, she was awake and crawling around. I let her go after mandatory mug shots. Sorry not to catch her on a flower, but she is pretty all the same.
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That little cutie has a top knot and mosquito legs!

Never would have thought that was a bee....

One of our honey bees on a cucumber last year.

Busy as a Mason Bee.

What kind of bee is this? It was large and it's sat motionless on the pentas for several minutes.


Bumblebee on Mystic Spires salvia.