The bumble bees are still busy

As I noted previously, I've been seeing a lot of bumble bees this year. Unlike when I saw lots of butterflies, though, the number of bumble bees remains high. The number of butterflies peaked in a few days and now I'm not seeing many. The reason for that may be that butterflies will migrate but the bumble bees do not.

The bumble bees are still hard at it. You can see three in this picture. There were probably 20 - 30 of them in the group of bushes where this picture was taken. But I couldn't get them to cooperate to get a good picture of all of them. This is why large numbers of bumble bees will never replace the honeybees that we're losing. The bumble bees are just too individualistic!