8.7.26 Palmisano Park, Chicago, IL (Polinators)

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for Chicago Quarry HawkWatch. 

Orange Sulfur or Clouded Yellow. Those two species look pretty much identical

Brown Belted Bumble Bee and a Black Diabrotica beetle

Brown-belted Bumbler

An unidentified bumbler hanging upside-down and grooming

I have no idea why this bee is doing this, but it is so silly

The grooming is normal. The hanging upside down from a fence cable is just silly

Red-belted Bumble Bee drone being adorable

The red belt. I think I have only seen them three times before. They're supposedly pretty common, but I guess they just don't like Chicago

So cool!

Directly below the bee's butt is an out-of-focus flower with a Black Diabrotica beetle on it

Common Eastern Bumble Bee

Wheeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!

Same Common Eastern bumbler as the one in flight

Another Common Eastern

Common Eastern and, yup, another Black Diabrotica

Brown-belted Bumbler striking a weird pose with its tongue out

Sluurrrrrrrp

Great Black Digger Wasp and a Goldenrod Soldier Beetle

Yet another Black Diabrotica


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