Bees

We had a couple days of temperatures in the 80s, exciting all the critters, but then things plummeted into overnight 30s. Here’s a small bee clutching a baby oak leaf on a cool morning.

Here’s another sucking up some rays on a leaf. But getting back to the hot days:

These are all solitary-nesting bees, like most of our bee species.

Did you see this news from Cornell about the millions of communally nesting solitary bees in an Ithaca, N.Y.. cemetery?