The Common Eastern Bumble Bee, Bombus impatiens. Here, the female worker collects nectar and pollen from a Red Buckeye flower storing her harvest in the orange 'pollen bucket', the corbiculae, attached to the hind leg. She frequently returns to the nest to supply the brood. Male workers, on the other hand, consume nectar at the flower for personal food energy and, except for an inadvertent dusting of pollen, never create a pollen bucket nor carry anything back to the nest.
© 150405-001 Bumble Bee
Bombus impatiens
Stone Mountain Park
Sunday 05 April 2015
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The Bombus men are somewhat like sorry-ass some Homo sapiens men I have known.
Great picture, Doc.
slim
Posted by: haroldreheis@joetanner.com | 10 April 2015 at 12:58 PM