#Common Eastern Bumble Bee

[speakingofnature]

Common Eastern Bumble Bee

With an energized eagerness the pollinators are visiting a growing number of blooming plants in the garden.

[backyardbluestem]

Common eastern bumble bee 🐝 a charismatic pollinator from the eastern temperate forest and Great Plains of the US.

[wildflowers-of-southern-ontario]

Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens Apidae

Photographs taken on October 10, 2021, along the Etobicoke Creek, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

[woozymitts]

Eastern Garter Snake (Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis) Common Eastern Bumble Bee (Bombus impatiens)

Nikon D850 | AF-P DX NIKKOR 70-300mm f/4.5-6.3G ED

I looooove this camera

[arthropodopolis]

probably a common eastern bumble bee, Bombus impatiens

[bytesizeambs]

Common Eastern Bumblebee 🐝 #shorts #bumblebee #bee #bytesizeambs

This cutie is a Common Eastern Bumblebee. They're some of the most abundant pollinators in eastern North America.

[anipgarden]

Common Eastern Bumble Bee on some salvias

5/04/2023

[whatnext10]

Eastern Bumble Bees are Big and Fuzzy

Bumbledore I couldn’t resist the name on the first photo because, yes, I am a Harry Potter nerd. And although bumble bees don’t really have anything to do with Harry Potter, I’m also a bug nerd. I’m very happy to be seeing quite a few of them now that the blackjack flowers are blooming. The eastern bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) is probably my very favorite bee because it is fluffy and fuzzy and…

[headspace-hotel]

farmer family friend has a Blackgum tree and it was COVERED in bees today. Hundreds of bees. Little common eastern bumble bees and all sorts of small mason bees and longhorn bees and honey bees

[crevicedwelling]

saw this lil eastern common bumble bee (according to seek) limping on the floor of my school. he tried to fly but couldn’t. i took him outside so no students messed with him.

im betting hes a boy whos been kicked out for the winter ? im in southern ontario, it’s gotten cold recently.

yep, it’s the season for male bumblebees to wander around and experience the unfortunate statistic that they’ll mostly all die before mating.

if you’ve looked at a lot of bees, you’ll notice his antennae are just a little longer than those of females, and he doesn’t have any pollen-gathering structures on his legs.

[speakingofnature]

Common Eastern Bumble Bee

A warm October day brought out this Common Eastern Bumble Bee to feed at the New England Aster.

[zuzsenpai]

Zuzu's bug-ventures June 8-16, 2024 (insects/spiders from a state park in northeast Pennsylvania) (re-uploading because of file size issues)

I figured I would make a collage after getting so many! A couple of the above photos have duplicates, so all in all I believe I found 65 distinct kinds. I'm still working to ID some of them, but all the ones I think I have ID'd are under the cut. Anyway, it was truly a fun experience. Maybe next time I'll have a camera that isn't a shitty phone!

You can see full size photos of most of these here.

IDs under the cut

Just a note, I'm not 100% on any of these. My IDs are speculative based on google searches, reddit, and so-on. If you think something is wrong, PLEASE let me know!

Also, each image has 9 insects/spiders in a grid. I will be referring to each grid of 9 insects/spiders as a single image below, and identifying all 9 based on rows within the image. If that makes sense. Hopefully it does!

Image 1 (first row left):

Top row (from left to right): Northern paper wasp (I'm told it's carrying caterpillar meat); Hickory tussock moth; Ground beetle of some kind (could not ID)

Middle row: Fall cankerworm moth; Barn spider; Red ichneumon wasp

Bottom row: Long-horned caddisfly; Copper underwing caterpillar; Brush-legged mayfly

Image 2 (first row right):

Top row: Very loud very big bee (could not ID); Common blue mud dauber wasp; Harvestman spider

Middle row: Limoniid crane fly; Firefly; Hoverfly

Bottom row: Elegant grass-veneer moth; Tiger crane fly; Western honey bee

Image 3 (second row left):

Top row: Two-spotted bumble bee; Marsh fly; Yellow-collared scape moth? (could not ID)

Middle row: Wolf spider (male); Macaria moth; Tipula lunata (type of crane fly)

Bottom row: Robber fly; Brown-toed forest fly; Virginian tiger moth

Image 4 (second row right):

Top row: Blue dasher dragonfly? (could not ID. Dead in spider web); White admiral butterfly; Chalk-fronted corporal dragonfly

Middle row: Clubtail dragonfly? (could not ID); Hemlock borer beetle; Eastern tent caterpillar

Bottom row: Another Tipula lanata crane fly; Double-banded grass-veneer moth; Horace's duskywing butterfly

Image 5 (third row left):

Top row: Cabbage white butterfly; Spongy moth caterpillar; Dragonfly exoskeleton (could not ID)

Middle row: White-striped running crab spider; Jumping spider (could not ID, but yes there is a spider in this photo!); Orchard orbweaver spider

Bottom row: Soldier beetle; Fortunate wave moth; Another white admiral butterfly

Image 6 (third row right):

Top row: Tussock moth caterpillar; A third white admiral butterfly (this is the last one I promise! They just have so much variation!); Another spongy moth caterpillar

Middle row: Common green bottle fly; Eastern parson spider; Another orchard webweaver spider

Bottom row: Blue dasher dragonfly (possibly female); Calligrapher fly; Dun skipper butterfly

Image 7 (last row left):

Top row: Another fortunate wave moth? (could not ID); Orbweaver spider of some kind (Could not ID); Eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly

Middle row: Stonefly exoskeleton; Ontario sallfly; Lesser house fly

Bottom row: White-striped black moth; Pale metarranthis moth (this one is my favorite find); White planthopper? (could not ID)

Image 8 (last row right):

Top row: Millipede; Immaculate grass-veneer moth; Flat wireworm beetle

Middle row: Twobanded Japanese weevil (WEEVIL TIME!!); Earwig; Bob's yellow and black millipede

Bottom row: Click beetle; Sod webworm moth? (could not ID); Deer fly

And that's it! Again, let me know if I made mistakes or if you know any of the ones I couldn't ID.

[wildflowers-of-southern-ontario]

Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens Apidae

Photograph taken on October 11, 2021, at Rattray Marsh Conservation Area, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

[woozymitts]

European Paper Wasp (Polistes dominula) ♂ Spotted Cucumber Beetle (Diabrotica undecimpunctata) Great Golden Digger Wasp (Sphex ichneumoneus) Five-banded Thynnid Wasp (Myzinum quinquecinctum) Common Blue Mud-dauber Wasp (Chalybion californicum) Chrysidini sp. Four-banded Stink Bug Wasp (Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus) Megachile sp. Parallel-striped Sweat Bee (Halictus parallelus) Myzinum maculatum ♀ Archytas apicifer? Goldenrod Soldier Beetle (Chauliognathus pensylvanicus) Archytas apicifer? Common Eastern Bumble Bee (Bombus impatiens) ♀ Common Eastern Bumble Bee (Bombus impatiens) ♂ Common Eastern Bumble Bee (Bombus impatiens) ♀ Lobed Mason Wasp (Ancistrocerus antilope) Narrow-headed Marsh Fly (Helophilus fasciatus) Hawthorn Mining Bee (Andrena crataegi)? Vespula Sp.

Foaming at the mouth at the absolute biodiversity in my yard this year! We have this bush in the yard that the wasps, bees and flies are obsessed with, which is where I took most of the pictures.

I also noticed these HUGE flies which I've never seen before. Usually if you even look in the general direction of a fly it immediately takes off but these ones could not care less, I could put my hand right up to them and they didn't move until I physically touched them.

Also once again completely baffled by the people who talk about how "aggressive" and "mean" wasps are and how they constantly get stung. What are you guys doing??? None of the above species gave a single shit about me shoving my macro lens in their faces, and if it was windy I would sometimes grab the branch they were on to hold it steady and none of them even reacted.

The queen bee (which has a stinger unlike the males) also made no effort to sting me, after picking her up for a photo she actually refused to get off of my hand because she wanted to sit on me and groom her face.

We've also had lots of yellowjackets (I'm so bad at IDing them so no idea on species) approaching us recently and checking us out, flying extremely close and looking at us and then flying away. Even if I put my hand up in front of them to see if they want to land they sort of just look at it and then fly away.

Last year there were paper wasps on nests in my yard and they would stare at me warily but never sting me when I photographed them.

Also feel free to ID things on my iNaturalist or correct me on any IDs here!

[jenfoundabug]

Assorted blurry but cute bug faces :3

Whitefly (Trialeurodes vaporariorum)

Aphid (species unknown)

Eggplant leafroller moth (Lineodes integra)

Unknown lepidoptera species

Mediterranean red bug (Scantius aegyptius)

Armyworm moth (Mythimna unipuncta)

Fly in Sarcophagidae family

Common eastern bumble bee (Bombus impatiens)

Springtail (species unknown)

Leafhopper (Empoascini)

[jupiterswasphouse]

[PHOTOS TAKEN: JULY 9TH, 2023 | Image IDs: Four photos of initially just a red, black, and yellow metric paper wasp on a red hummingbird feeder, who is soon joined in the latter two photos by a black and yellow common eastern bumble bee with transparent wings /End IDs.]