Pollinator Week - Saturday evening ...

Pollinator Week is coming to an end.  Butterflies from a short walk around our flower gardens this afternoon ... Tiger Swallowtail on a Zinnia, Great Spangled Fritillary, Clouded Sufur (?), Pearl Crescent (probably), and American Lady (2)

We have lots of bumble bees working the bee balm ... would probably have to be a long-tongue bee so I am guessing American bumble bee (Bombus pensylvanicus)

Saw one solid black bee working the slender mountain mint this afternoon ... smaller than most bumblebees ... thinking a carpenter bee (Xylocopa sp.  ???)