Identified by: Ke Jiang and Shirley Cheung
Common Name: Bumble-Bee; Genus: Bombus
This bee stayed on the flower pictured above for quite a long time. It was not afraid of humans and allowed us to get very close to it. Its entire body is pretty fuzzy and marked with black and yellow stripes.
ID by Ke Jiang & Shirley Cheung
Common name: Paper wasps; Genus: Polistes biglumis
This wasp is easily identifiable because of its elongated body and clear segmentation of body parts. It has a black head and sports yellow at the adjoining segments. It also has very elongated and blade-like wings.
ID by Ke Jiang & Shirley Cheung
Common name: Yellow-jacket wasp; Genus: Vespula vulgeris
This wasp was very hard to capture because it constantly moved from flower to flower. It would land on the petals and crawl onto the middle. This wasp is identifiable because of the unique design of its yellow-and black body.
ID by Ke Jiang & Shirley Cheung
Common Name: Worker Honey Bee; Genus: Apis mellifera
Many of this type of bees are female and we believe that the bees we have in our pictures are female. Male bees of this kind are call drones and have typically bigger with large eyes.
ID by Ke Jiang & Shirley Cheung
Common Name: Common Eastern Bumble Bee; Genus: Bombus impatiens
Many bees land and stay around the top part of this red flower. We noticed that they move in a circular manner. Perhaps it was due to the wind.
ID by Ke Jiang & Shirley Cheung
Common Name: Wool Carder Bee; Genus: Anthidium manicatum
It is an invasive species that was introduced to North America from Europe. It stayed on the flower for around 3 minutes but because of the wind, the photo came out blurry
