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The Daily Bucket - bugs in flowers [1]
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Date: 2025-07-17
Summer 2025
Pacific Northwest
As flowers bloom and fade, insects make the rounds. Summer is the busy season for them. Pictured below is a non-representative sampling of insects in my neighborhood over the past few weeks as they follow the sequence of blooming.
June 25. Lorquin's admiral in Himalayan blackberry
June 25. Bumblebee in blackberry
July 1. Honeybee in cotoneaster
July 8. Yellowjacket in snowberry
July 8. Bumblebee in snowberry
July 10. Leafcutter bee in gumweed
Puget Sound gumweed grows in really harsh conditions, like sand, clay, rock crevices. It stays in bloom all summer right into fall.
July 10. Sand wasp in gumweed
(Incidentally, the other miner bees I was seeing on the clay bank are pretty much done.)
Flower beetles in gumweed
Ladybird beetle larva in yarrow
July 10. Cardinal Meadowhawk on grass
There are many many more insects around of course but these were more or less knee to eye level, pretty big in size, active, and out in the open. The vast numbers of insect predators in trees, shrubs, on the ground and elsewhere โ like birds, bats, spiders, froggies, snakes, the multitude of other insects โ are a sign of the larger abundance that supports the local summer ecosystem.
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Sunny and warm today in the PNW islands.
Whatโs up in nature in your neighborhood?
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