{"id":72945,"date":"2020-08-21T05:20:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T11:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=72945"},"modified":"2025-05-22T05:43:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T10:43:25","slug":"common-sunflower-great-basin-bumble-bee-and-long-horned-bee-at-bear-river-mbr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2020\/08\/21\/common-sunflower-great-basin-bumble-bee-and-long-horned-bee-at-bear-river-mbr\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Sunflower, Great Basin Bumble Bee And Long-horned Bee At Bear River MBR"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CommonCommon Sunflower, Great Basin Bumble Bee and Long-horned Bee \u2013 Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/2000, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

When I am not photographing birds I always look around to see what other life I can place in my viewfinder because I know that everything in the natural world is connected.<\/p>\n

When I was at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge<\/span><\/a> three days ago I enjoyed seeing all of the blooming Common Sunflowers and while they are in bloom I can’t resist taking photos of their bright, sunshine colored blooms. Sometimes when I take photographs of the sunflowers I get just the sunflowers themselves, other times I find pollinators on them and when I do I get excited. We need our pollinators and taking photos of them is my way of celebrating their lives.<\/p>\n

When I photographed this Common Sunflower I noticed the Great Basin Bumble Bee right away then I saw the other bee and what appears to be two midges on the upper left quadrant of the flower petals.<\/p>\n

Great Basin Bumble Bees (Bombus centralis<\/em>) are also unofficially called Central Bumble Bees but I think the name Great Basin Bumble Bee is more fitting because I do live and photograph in the Great Basin.<\/p>\n

The other bee is a Long-horned Bee of the tribe Eucerini and that is as far as I was able to narrow down the ID. The male Long-horned Bees have unusually long antennas. The one I photographed is a male. I’ll post a photo or two of it cropped in tighter to iNaturalist to see if I can get a more specific ID.<\/p>\n

I admit to being excited by the Long-horned Bee, I believe this is the first time I’ve photographed a male!<\/p>\n

Bees fascinate me. Nature delights me.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good. Stay safe.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a><\/span> to see more of my flower, shrub and tree photos. Click here<\/a><\/span> to see more of my insect and spider images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I photographed this Common Sunflower I noticed the Great Basin Bumble Bee right away then I saw the other bee and what appears to be two midges on the upper left quadrant of the flower petals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[124,1148,13157,10319,10320,26,5347],"tags":[2464,6513,6627,6098,10321,5940,10326,10327,2649,10322,6028,10323,10325,2639,10324,3896,4307,5063],"class_list":["post-72945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bear-river-migratory-bird-refuge","category-box-elder-county-utah","category-common-sunflowers","category-great-basin-bumble-bees","category-long-horned-bees","category-utah","category-wildflowers","tag-bee","tag-bees","tag-bloom","tag-blooming","tag-bombus-centralis","tag-bumble-bee","tag-bumble-bees","tag-central-bumble-bee","tag-common-sunflower","tag-great-basin-bumble-bee","tag-helianthus-annuus","tag-long-horned-bee","tag-longhorn-bee","tag-pollinators","tag-tribe-eucerini","tag-wildflower","tag-wildflowers","tag-yellow-wildflowers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t