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Eastern swallowtail butterfly
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How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower. - Isaac Watts
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Red hornet examines a mimosa blossom for nectar
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Persian silk tree or pink siris (Albizia julibrissin)
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Peony about to pop!
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Eastern carpenter bee
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Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - Papilio glaucus
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end of summer ... wee beasties looking for final drops of sweet nectar
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Black swallowtail: Papilio polyxenes
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Fiery Skipper: Hylephila phyleus
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golden summer days
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Silver-Spotted Skipper Butterfly - Epargyreus clarus
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"Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness"
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Bee-ing bewilderingly beneficial ... Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
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Mimosa bee
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ah, sweet mystery of life ... or "ladybug love"
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on the Bee Business channel ...
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hanging on for dear life ...
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lowering the "landing gear" for arrival!
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Swallowtail colors
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too bad this bee has no GPS!
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end of summer, industrious bee still at work ...
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Coreopsis lanceolata with friend
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Painted Lady Butterfly
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golden summer of 2009
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Hast ne'er a honey-drop of love for me?
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bee enjoying the blossoms of "Hylotelephium spectabile" ... thank you for the name, Michelle!