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Subgenus AgapostemonObserver
annem4gDescription
Good quiet day no breeze, to watch this medium size green bee. Attractive colour against the yellow bloom. Enlarging shows the lucky details! Yellow hairy legs, large oval eye with grey, shiny abdomen. Love this green bee.
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Bicolored Striped Sweat Bee (Agapostemon virescens)Observer
paulreevesphotography
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Tricolored Bumble Bee (Bombus ternarius)Observer
xianzxDescription
My first ternarius
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Brown-belted Bumble Bee (Bombus griseocollis)Observer
xianzxDescription
On Hypericum kalmianum
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Two-spotted Bumble Bee (Bombus bimaculatus)Observer
xianzxDescription
For the bug on her: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/172111277
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Augochlorine Sweat Bees (Tribe Augochlorini)Observer
xianzxDescription
Augochlora?
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Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris)Observer
annem4gDescription
Standing outdoors near the Monarda watching bees!! This flew straight to me, I saw its green head, wide ruby throat, good size up close!! Wonderfull experience.
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Virginia Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa virginica ssp. virginica)Observer
annem4gDescription
Not sure this is a new bumble bee for me. Looks like stripes on back of the bum-2-3. It carried pollen and rested in shade to clean legs and underside. Yes first hot day in south garden. On purple alliums.
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Observer
annem4gDescription
Or similar hellebore in friends garden. Blooming now with a bee hiding in the bloom for the evening.j
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Northern Bush Katydid (Scudderia septentrionalis)Observer
annem4gDescription
Just saw it jump back from the sun. Another grasshopper not seen before close by. Observed before the green one today. It is green camouflage against foliage. Makes an amazing pic. enlarged.
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Eastern Pondhawk (Erythemis simplicicollis)Observer
annem4gDescription
Yes it looks similar to the large Green Darner. This one is a beautifull bright green with black/white marks on tail. A good large size. Could be the female Eastern Pond Hawk! As in recent observations today July 9th.
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Rampion Scissor Bee (Chelostoma rapunculi)Observer
annem4gDescription
Oh my gosh, so cute hugging the stamen on a crane'sbill geranium(xJohnson's Blue). Looks like sweat bee but has longer body curved inwards. Small head, eye looks black. Luck spotting with cell phone camera.
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Summer Azure (Celastrina neglecta)Observer
annem4gDescription
Enjoy these tiny blues- this female light colour with black dots, definite white fringe on hind wings, fine black margin, vivid dots same as photo in the ROM's Field Guide to butterflys of Ontario, pg. 212. Stood close to capture my treat.
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Transverse-banded Flower Fly (Eristalis transversa)Observer
annem4gDescription
More than one present today. Small but colourfull.
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Brown-belted Bumble Bee (Bombus griseocollis)Observer
annem4gDescription
This bumble bee was larger than some others close by on the Anise Hyssop collecting nectar. Could be the Brown-belted or the Eastern Bumble bee? Similar looking especialy in this pose looking through the wing colour!!
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Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum)Observer
annem4gDescription
I've looked this up with friends advise, etc. Acer freemanii or Freeman's Maple is a hybrid of parents Acer Rubrum and Acer Sacharinum or Red Maple crossed with Silver Maple. Autumn traits can include red to yellow foliage with 5 main pointed lobes and near straight base line. Could be the Autumn Blaze cultivar.
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New England Aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae)Observer
paulreevesphotography
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Silky Dogwood (Cornus amomum)Observer
annem4gDescription
Good find today walking through Evergreen Brickworks along the paths to the ponds. Dogwoods with lovely berrys! Jewels of the summer growth help to identify this dogwood. Lots of birds present.
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Grey-headed Coneflower (Ratibida pinnata)Observer
annem4gDescription
Admire these very tall yellow daisys our native brown eyed Susan's. Foliage looks different than the rudbeckia family.
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Roughleaf Dogwood (Cornus drummondii)Observer
annem4gDescription
White berrys, oh so red stemed panicles joining berrys to the bloom stems and branches. Branches are more grey, leaves are glacious, stiff and thick on the edges.
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Cutleaf Coneflower (Rudbeckia laciniata)Observer
annem4gDescription
Oh glad to find this one. Not blooming now these are the seed heads. Different shape for a rudbeckia?
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European Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus)Observer
annem4gDescription
Oh the lovely small blue butterfly! Been watching so many small whites, yellow, butterflys this summer hoping to see these solid blue wings! Underside is a contrast in soft lt. grey, black dots cover wings with row of orange spots at side. Last blurred photo does show clear colouration, blue reverse on edges.
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Brown-belted Bumble Bee (Bombus griseocollis)Observer
kenskiDescription
2nd 30 min survey
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Megachile inermisObserver
annem4gDescription
Captured one of a pair of bees collecting pollen. Flew into the bloom-no hands! So cute to watch it adapt to the bloom shape. Perennial Sweet Pea vine; bloom opens to pollen on one "style"- curved around the bee's back!
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Virginia Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa virginica ssp. virginica)Observer
annem4gDescription
See these every summer. 2022- notice the wide hairy legs! Their size makes me stand back and the buzz! Not aggressive, just let it bee! Today caught it zoom into sweet pea- side view.
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Bicolored Striped Sweat Bee (Agapostemon virescens)Observer
annem4gDescription
Wow, today there are so many of these busy bees!! With furrows, tiny stingless, etc. in garden on blooms. Never saw so many of same Striped Sweat bees at mine! Must be the season? Plus my organic practice.
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annem4gDescription
Well, thought it was same as another id but look at those horns! Eyes are fasinating colours! Striped abdomen, gold hair on legs, thorax. A few of same bees seen with small furrow bees and tiny bees in a swarm. This one is male.
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Striped Sweat Bees (Genus Agapostemon)Observer
joebartokDescription
At least ten active in a small area.
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Coprinellus Sect. Micacei (Section Micacei)Observer
annem4gDescription
Gardening to weed found these underneath monarda, daylilys, milkweed.
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Snowberry Clearwing (Hemaris diffinis)Observer
carolrDescription
Beautiful❤️🌸
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Subgenus AgapostemonObserver
annem4gDescription
Spring photo 2019, all green Sweat Bee! Green bee with striped abdomen. There also Bi-Coloured Sweat bee on the purple Salvia blooms.
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Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)Observer
annem4gDescription
Seen as I was focused on the first bloom of bee balm with stem folded forwards.
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Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui)Observer
annem4gDescription
Summer garden visitor. Saw them a few years, then absent.
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Northern Azure (Celastrina lucia)Observer
annem4gDescription
A favorite that I used to see every few years.
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Melissa Blue (Plebejus melissa)Observer
steveansellDescription
Strong orange suggests perhaps P. melissa.
Male, bright blue above in flight.
Recently burned mountain slope, with lush new growth.
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American Robin (Turdus migratorius)Observer
annem4gDescription
3 young robins born of blue eggs (3). Nest made in flowering shrub. They fledged a few days later.
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Two-spotted Bumble Bee (Bombus bimaculatus)Observer
annem4gDescription
Usually have many in the garden. This Veronica veronicastrum a great native plant for Bumble Bees.
2019 I had many all at once that had a distinct occure bull's eye on back of their heads! Will add later.
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Fisher (Pekania pennanti)Observer
kmcraeDescription
Chasing snowshoe hare on the highway.
