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bumblebees are all over the vetch, all day long
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bumbleronbloo
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butterflies of all kinds love these Globe Gillia
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frittilariesbacklit
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these annuals were seeded in spring, and have continued to bloom right through several light frosty mornings,
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Globe Gillia is longest blooming insect food, and is also loved by chipmonks, who eat the seedheads while they are green...
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these flowers are still hanging in, and making seed heads, but the butterflies and other insects are absent afer the frost, and the cool air from the snow covered high ground.
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spring was here for a whole week, had to rescue several visitors, a bumbler and this docile fellow!
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mason bee on rugosa rose, var. Hansa,
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bumblerheadonvetch
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big bumblers are back, all over the vetch!
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hellooooo, eye contact and upclose with a mormon cricket, they chomp on willow leaf too, but not any big deal.
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hellooo, no worries, just looking, you like my little red slab?
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Butterflies love bi annual thistles
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black hornets upclose
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last of the pollinators
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grasshopper on windshield