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Critter On A Flower

Erin Galbraith
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A queen Yellow-faced Bumblebee (Bombus vosnesenskii) sleeping on an aster blossom one early autumn morning. Yellow-faced Bumblebees are native to the West Coast of the United States. These large fuzzy pollinators nest in abandoned rodent holes, and the queens can often be found spending the night on cosmos or aster flowers in my yard.