Exeter Pollinator Garden : A Bumblebee sleep over...

[Paul Lacourse]

Hi Everyone,

I know this isn't about butterfly's but I couldn't resist.  I have seen this before but never this many. At 7AM this morning with the temperature registering around 47F I noticed that the Showy Goldenrod was covered with Bumblebees.  I counted 32 Eastern Common Bumblebees (a conservative count) in what I will call suspended animation, waiting for the sun's return. Very cool!!!

Sometimes you don't have to go any further than your backyard to be awed by nature!

 

ps. I have this Beatles tune "Here Comes the Sun" recurring in my mind. LOL.

Photos of some of the bees than spent the night

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/313090507

Have great day

Paul Lacourse