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The Daily Bucket - late summer pollinators [1]
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Date: 2023-08-31
August 2023
Pacific Northwest
Fall is in the air here in the PNW. Leaves are drying and falling. We’ve had rain and cooler temps the past few days. Mostly plants have gone to fruit and seed, so the ones still blooming are getting swarmed by insect nectar-feeders.
There’s a patch of chamomile planted in my neighborhood to stabilize the ground and turn a dirt road into a path. It’s been a boon to insects.
Feel free to add better IDs in the comments!
Bumblebee: Red-belted I think
Some kind of sweat bee
Path to beach, looking back toward transition from road
Some kind of potter’s wasp
Sand wasp
Woodland skipper
This has been a great year for Woodland skippers. I’ve never seen so many. They’re also in the Searocket, a beach plant that grows in sand.
There’s actually a lot of overlap in pollinators right now, wherever flowers are blooming, including honeybees and bumblebees.
Red-belted bumblebee? They are quite common according to the Pacific Northwest Bumblebee Atlas www.pnwbumblebeeatlas.org/...
Yellow faced bumblebee
Western honeybee
And here’s one of those sand wasps
Cabbage white butterfly
In the garden, herbs are one of the few sources of flowers remaining.
Bumblebee (possibly Yellow headed, Bombus flavifrons) and honeybee on thyme
Overcast and drizzly today in the PNW islands. Calm. Temps in 60s.
What’s up in nature in your neighborhood?
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