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This queen buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris, also known as the large earth bumblebee, just has the most awesome fur coat. So dense!

The really pretty flower that is enticing here is an eastern purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) which really is a bumblebee (and also butterfly!) magnet.

If you look a little closer on the bumblebee, you can see that it has a couple of stowaways in the form of phoretic mites. These don't hurt the bumblebee but just use it to taxi between places.

Part 1 (closer) here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/51546596003/

Part 2 (from the front) here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52719268452/

Part 3 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52809691530/

Part 4 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52911928384/

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Here is a hard-working Western honey bee (Apis mellifera) busy pollinating the center of a purple eastern coneflower (Echinacea purpurea).

Part 1 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/50751464888/

Part 2 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/50801759317/

Part 3 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/50899532546/

Small tortoiseshell on Black-eyed Susan.

Coneflower

(Echinacea genus"Parrot")

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Sonnenhut

Black-eyed Susan in Mom's garden

coneflowers (Echinacea ֍ variety "Parrot") on a rainy day.

Wie begossene Pudel.
Sonnenhüte (Echinacea ֍ Züchtung "Parrot") im Regen.

coneflowers
(Echinacea) variety "Parrot"

Sonnenhüte
(Echinacea) Züchtung "Parrot"

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I wish you a wonderful weekend, dear Flickr friends!

(Echinacea) variety "Parrot"

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(Echinacea) Züchtung "Parrot"

Rudbeckia

Late end...! Black-eyed Susan in mom's garden in late December.

Unfolding. Too bad I had to leave today... Won't see it in full bloom.