Here is an Eastern Tailed-Blue butterfly. The tails are small, but you can see them if you click for the larger pic.
This is an Orange Sulphur, Colias eurytheme:
I think this is the American Bumble Bee, Bombus pennsylvanicus. But there are a couple of other possibilities. Female bumble bees have pollen baskets like this one, while carpenter bees do not. (There is plenty more information about bumble bees at that link!)
Mouse over pics for captions, and click them for larger versions.
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31 comments:
Good Morning, beautiful butterflies. I like the Eastern tailed blue! Great capture of the bee. Pollinators are welcome. Great post and images. Thank you for linking up and sharing your post. Have a happy weekend!
beautiful blue!!!
I don't see many Eastern tailed blues in my area, or least they may hide from me ;)
Thanks for the link-up.
Oh how wonderful ~ these are all of my favorite little critters. Love the butterfly shots.
And your joke was funny! Have a great day!
I love these butterflies, although they are small. Second insect also like to watch in my garden. Regards.
Wonderful! I love both the butterflies and the bees.
Love these and the butterfly meme is showing me a lot of beauty today and also a lot about how woefully ignorant I am about these beautiful creatures. I need a guidebook!
Wonderful friends!
ALOHA
ComfortSpiral
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Very nice - such beauty.
Fabulous shots - love the larger view of the photos. I'd love to see the blue butterfly in person.
I love the iridescent blue color of the butterfly wings, so special! I get similar black bumblebees but also yellow fuzzy ones.
I especially like that shade of blue in the first photo, they are all very pretty! I actually tried shooting a lovely Monarch last week, and for the life of me I couldn't catch him! It's like he just disappeared into thin air.
Beautiful butterflies and bees. They are not easy to capture, they are always fluttering here and there!
Beautiful pictures of the butterflies and bees.
My favorite tit is the first picture.
Best regards, Irma
Pretty butterflies and great bee photos!
Wow...really beautiful captures!
oohhhhh they are beautiful and such a challenge to photograph. enjoy your sunday!!!!
Lovely blue. Delicate. Unusual.
Beautiful butterflies.
They are beautiful, all of them.
Beautiful butterflies and bumble bees, great captures, love them all!
magnificent and beautiful macro shots! So Creative!
Happy Week to you!
artmusedog and carol
The Blue is very like our Blues, but I am going to have to look up Bumble bees!
It is 'tailed' isn't it?! What a hoot.
All are beautiful shots, but the blue butterfly is my fav, such a pretty color! we don`t have those, I don`t believe ,here in Pa. ,phyllis
Glorious gifts of nature. The blue is so pretty tho...it'd have to be a favorite for me today.
The blue one is so lovely and all the aspects in pictures are amazing! Thank you for sharing them with us!
The blue butterfly looks like something an artist would paint! Beautiful!
I love the color on the Eastern bluetail... it's so subtle. Really lovely.
I love the image of the orange sulphur. We rarely see them in Sweden.
Love all your sweet little critters, but especially that blue one ... Gorgeous!
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