Two-Spotted Bumble Bee in the large meadows at Bowmans’ Hill Wildflower Preserve

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Great Black Digger Wasp and Two-Spotted Bumble Bees

After photographing butterflies in the meadow on this trip to Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve on 20 July 2024, I suggested to Bhavna that we leave the meadow and go to the new pond to look for dragonflies. As we leisurely walked back through the meadow to the car, I noticed a Great Black Digger Wasp (Sphex pensylvanicus).

At the time when I took the photographs, I did not know what kind of bees and wasps these were or what flowers they were on. All were identified later when I uploaded [...]

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