Rolling in the California Poppy
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Ah, here is another yellow-faced bumble bee bombus vosnesenskii collecting pollen from a California poppy. These bees are so much fun to observe because they plop down into the poppy blossoms and then roll around, collecting pollen on their bodies.
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Look at the size of the pollen basket (the large orange sack on the side of the abdomen).
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Still hard at work.