Bee 2-4-1

Our bees seem to especially love the sedum flowers, any color will do! Worker bees, like the Queen, are all girls. These busy girls are gathering pollen or nectar, the pollen provides their protein and the nectar from flowers is their carbohydrate source. Bees are vegetarian while some wasps will eat aphids or something decomposing. Wasps can get carb from anything sweet and might even go after your pop or watermelon at a picnic!

It's a Girl!

If you look below at older posts for the caterpillar picture, that's a "before" photo - on Sunday, our butterfly emerged and slowly made her way across the yard! Girl butterflies do not have a "dot" on the bottom black line of the wing while boys do. So, no dot, it's a girl :) Here are a couple of "after" photos, isn't she beautiful? I'm a little teary...

Bees are fuzzy and have 2 sets of wings. Their "fuzz" attracts pollen with a little static charge making them great pollinators! Wasps are smooth with 2 sets of wings and some flies mimic bee appearance...they can be either fuzzy or smooth but only have 1 set of wings.

No promises that I haven't got a wasp or fly in the mix, but I'll do my best!

Have seen more grasshoppers out and about lately,  I saw two grasshoppers together and thought "how nice, a mom carrying a baby". Those in the know tell me this may, in fact, be romance...Either way, fun to catch!