June 3, 2012, 11:00 am

Success with a picture!  Bees are REALLY hard to photograph.  They are small and fast.  However, Sang took this one:

We took out a book from the library, "Insects of the North Woods" by Jeffrey Hahn. So, now we can tell you that the above picture is a honey bee (we had correctly identified that).  What we were referring to as the small bumble bees are likely common eastern bumble bees.  What we called the large bumble bees are likely golden northern bumble bees.

Goals:  get pictures of the two bumble bees.  Also, the book shows pictures of three other kinds of bees that maybe we can spot.

Today was sunny and warm, but not too many bees.  About 5 honey bees, and 5 common eastern bumble bees.