Sleeping Bees

Bees--carpenter bees especially--seem to like to spend nights in the missing gardener's celosia patch. Some of them like cosmos, too.

This male eastern carpenter bee hung almost upside down. He was at an angle but the camera's orientation made him look like this. (Focus stack of 28 images)

 

A female. (Focus stack of 26 images)

I found this bumble bee in a blue spruce.

This one was covered in tiny water droplets after an overnight rain.

Focus stack of 22 images, retouched

This bumble found a cosmos bed.

Same bee. (Focus stack of 28 images, retouched)

The same bumble or different? It was a different day. (Focus stack of two images) 

Construction

Last July (2025), I noticed a bare spot among the weeds in the front yard. I thought it was odd, but the yard receives no care other than mowing, so I was like, whatevs, bruh.

Then I saw this:

A cottontail was apparently harvesting grass for a nest. 

 

She worked at it for a while, but nothing came of the nest, as far as I know.