This Tricolored Bumble Bee is a ground-nesting beauty for sure and is foraging for pollen and nectar on this patch of flowers (Bachelor’s Button). After the gathering, this colorful bee will take back its find to the underground nest.
I found myself putting all my attention into trying to shoot a great angle of the bees tongue–when I noticed that on the bee’s back above its orange belt was the shape of a heart. Oh, my….I love it! How wondrous nature is.
While I usually talk and write about honeybees–there are other pollinators that are certainly worth mentioning, the Tricolored Bumble Bee is one of them.
-Virginia Wright, Author of Buzzzzzzzz What Honeybees Do http://www.amazon.com/author/virginiawright