{"id":19167,"date":"2020-07-01T17:50:06","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T22:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19167"},"modified":"2020-07-09T17:52:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T22:52:08","slug":"common-eastern-bumble-bee-bombus-impatiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19167","title":{"rendered":"Common Eastern Bumble Bee (<em>Bombus impatiens<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19169\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_20200701_176813.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19169\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_20200701_176813-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Common Eastern Bumble Bee (Bombus impatiens)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_20200701_176813-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_20200701_176813-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_20200701_176813-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_20200701_176813-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_20200701_176813.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Common Eastern Bumble Bee (<em>Bombus impatiens<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Pretty much all the flowers in our garden are attractive to insects. I suppose that makes sense, because that&#8217;s what flowers are supposed to do, in order to get the insects to (inadvertently) pollinate the flowers. It&#8217;s interesting to me, though, that some flowers are attractive to many different insects but some seem to attract a specific subset. Yesterday, I was looking at the <em>Monarda<\/em> (bee balm) and noticed that the large bees were almost exclusively carpenter bees (<em>Xylocopa virginica<\/em>). Today I was looking at the gooseneck loosestrife (<em>Lysimachia clethroides<\/em>) shown here and the large bees were exclusively common eastern bumble bees (<em>Bombus impatiens<\/em>). Just interesting, that&#8217;s all.<\/p>\n<p>On a mostly unrelated note, I really, really don&#8217;t recommend you plant any <em>Lysimachia<\/em> species in your garden. The bees love it, but there are other things they like that aren&#8217;t so overwhelming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty much all the flowers in our garden are attractive to insects. I suppose that makes sense, because that&#8217;s what flowers are supposed to do, in order to get the insects to (inadvertently) pollinate the flowers. It&#8217;s interesting to me, though, that some flowers are attractive to many different insects but some seem to attract &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19167\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[2493,120,1785,1786,755,1162,1677,754],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19167"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19171,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19167\/revisions\/19171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}