Crumby’s Major Project

Crumby’s major project, The Bees that get on Physostegia correllii, is not going well at all. The dang Physostegia is done blooming, the bees no longer come around, and the pictures of the bees that did come around are not so hot. Plus, Crumby can’t even identify many of the bees in the pictures even to genera, mostly because the wing venation on a great many of the bees’ wings can not be espied in the pictures. Dern it!

Nevertheless, Crumby is toiling along on this major project. But not with much enthusiasm. Dang it. Here’s an example of one bee Crumby is fairly certain is identified to the correct genus. It may be a Ceratina or tiny carpenter bee. Man and Boy! Pitiful!

Well, Ceratina is probably the littlest bee that got on the Physostegia correllii. Although, the dad gum Dialictus are pretty dang little too. Either way, tiny bees are hard work. Too hard for the old, feeble and palsied. Plus, there is the rheaumatiz to consider.

And speaking of littlest, meet the CBs littlest robber fly. These 5mm dynamic Dipterans are presently all over the place. We have better pictures than this as a consequence of the abundance. Also, they perch on the clothesline. But this picture, though shitty, indicates an identifiable homop prey item. Pity the poor homops. It's a massacre out there.