I love all the bumblers, but tri-colored might bee my favorites🐝💛🤍🧡
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Incoming! Tri-colored bombus flying toward giant yellow hyssop🐝
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This fuzzy multicolored nectar collector is also known as the Orange belted bumble bee. They’re social insects, nesting in ground burrows, with a colony cycle of roughly one season. Only newly mated queens go through the overwintering process known as diapause. “Long Live the Queen”

Tricolored Bumble Bee: Bombus ternarius

IS0400 50mm 0ev f/5.6 @ 1/640s

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Tri-colored bumbler booty peeking out from behind a creamy pinkish white meadowsweet bloom

Meadowsweet #spireaalba is our native spirea here in the Midwest US🌱 I planted two of these beautiful little shrubs last year and can't wait to see their creamy blooms! They prefer wet areas, so I'm going to set up some soaker hoses. #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #bugsky #bombusternarius #nature