Day 281: I have good reason to "bee hopeful" that my milkweed plants will produce seed pods this year. They are absolutely covered with a large assortment of insects...stinging insects, mind you!...who visit one flower after another. Bees dominate the mix, but there are wasps of every size from miniscule to man-eating, so I stood well back and zoomed in for the photo. Can I identify them? No, although I think I can safely say that these two are honeybees, a species to which I am deadly allergic. Was I worried that I would get stung? Not at all, because they were firmly focused on the work at hand, gathering nectar from the sweet-scented flowers. Surely sombody's going to get pollinia caught on a leg!
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