Backyard and Beyond

Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.

As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”

Pollinators

Oblique Streaktail
European Paperwasp
An unknown-to-me bee.
Another unknown bee.
Colletes or Andrena?
Carpenter Bee cutting into the flower to suck out the nectar, and missing the pollen.
You can see the scars of the cuts.
An unknown flower fly. Note the Forsythia pollen on eye.
Problematic, but those pollen baskets!

mthew

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