More urban insects on campus - August 2017

Our pollinator group did two more pollinator observations (plus an single-audience pollinator talk) on campus this month since my girlfriend and I returned back from Portland.

And here are some of the photos.

A Bombus griseocollis queen missing her left antenna on anise hyssop (Agastache foeniculum).

Another Bombus sp. on A, fieniculum.

Bombus sp. visiting motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca).

B. bimaculatus on cup-plant (Silphium perfoliatum).

Bombus sp. foraging for nectar on black-eyed-Susan (Rudbeckia hirta).

And "accidentally" collecting pollen at the same time.

An adorable-looking sweat bee (Lasioglossum sp.) on R. hirta.

A different sweat bee.

One of the less common pollinators, bee fly (family Bombyliidae) on R. hirta.

A Lasioglossum sp. on oregano (Origanum vulgare).

A masked bee (Hylaeus sp.) on A. foeniculum.

Andrena sp. on an unknown aster - probably my favourite photograph from this month.

Augochlora sp. on goldenrod (Solidago sp.)

An unhappy Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica) lifting its hind legs up in the air.

I can't believe there are only four more months of 2017 left!  Time to focus more on the present and worry less about the future.