After Anna found the Southern Plains Bumble Bee on First Wednesday, I couldn’t resist to go search again at the same location. So yesterday afternoon I tried again.
The first stop was for the Clouded Sulphur (Colias philodice)! On this day, I only looked at the butterflies.
My first catch was the Eastern Carpenter Bee!
Second catch was the beautiful golden faced Black-legged Longhorn (Svastra atripes)! If you remember this was the one that fooled me to thinking it was a weird bumble the first time.
Black-legged Longhorn (Svastra atripes)
Third, the American Bumble Bee (Bombus pensylvanicus)!
Another butterfly, a Buckeye!
Was the white Narrow-leaf Gayfeathers (Liatris punctata var mucronata) going to bring me luck?
Another American Bumble Bee (Bombus pensylvanicus)! Indeed the bees were certainly active.
An American Bumble Bee (Bombus pensylvanicus) got wet. No, there wasn’t any rain. ;-( In fact my jar leaked. But fortunately not enough to harm them.
Yippee, I found the Southern Plains Bumble Bee (Bombus fraternus)! Now was this the same one Anna found the day before?
We waved goodbye to each other. Well, doesn’t it look like that? 😉 Actually after being chilled all the bees stretch their limbs and wings to warm up.
In fact I’m sure they had stories to tell their mates after their release. LOL.
In this case the third time was a charm at this location! 🙂
Love the fuzzy bumblebees. The sweet face of the Longhorn looks like it has gold dust on it. Looks like s successful day.
Very pleased yes
I like that they stretch before they go!!
Wish we could eavesdrop on those bee stories – likely about the big white monster they got caught up in! And the cold – brrrrr!
The biobots are really neat – fun to watch.