Sleeping bees
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Late spring and early summer is when so much happens in the garden.
After a heatwave week, our high temperatures are now around 70, at least 15 degrees lower.
Yesterday, the first day of cooling down, instead of nectaring and collecting pollen until 8 pm, some of the bees decided to turn in for the day at 4 pm.
Here are some Yellow-faced bumble bees, Bombus vosnesenskii, sleeping in and on native plants.
The bee above is asleep in a Gumweed flower.
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This bumble bee is asleep on the stem of a Seacliff buckwheat shrub.
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And this one is sleeping on a Coyote Bush branch.
Getting extra sleep for another busy day.
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