You know who else is late? Late Boneset, it’s right in her name. But inch per inch she’s had more activity than any other flower this year, and she’s flower enough for such heavyweights as the tiger swallowtail and eastern carpenter bee. No one does it like her, a solid first place champion.

coordinated strike. overwhelming groom assault. also Sam licks a pillow at the end.

monch monch monch

Because I’m a boring nerd, I took another video of bees getting a snack and a back rub on a passion flower. These bees ended up settling in for the night on these same flowers.

Managed to get a vid of a bee visiting a passionflower. You can see how the flower’s pistils and stamens are flopped over, positioned so that they rub on the bee’s back as she moves around looking for nectar.