הזיהויים של zportman

This is one of four queen bumblebees I saw on a bright white 20 foot high flowering tree along the fence with the RR tracks. Plant Net was ~80% sure it is an Asiatic Apple based on leaves. A very large Asiatic Apple is blooming in the middle of a field to the north in the park and smaller Asiatic Apples at woodland edges in the park. This is the first non-native plant I have seen a queen foraging at this spring. There are more planted through the east side I will be looking at carefully in coming days though their petals are starting to drop.

This queen was foraging on the medium sized gooseberry in our front yard. There are a lot of flowers and it is in the sun two thirds of the day but most queens I have been seeing have been at the larger gooseberry in our back yard.

This queen was foraging on the larger gooseberry bush in the back yard. At this time I thought maybe I was seeing the same brown-belted queen with a two-spot pattern to her brown belt each of the last four days on this same bush...maybe she has a nest nearby already. But later in the evening I saw two brown-belted queens on this bush.