If any of this can be IDed as different species let me know and I will split observation - wondering if these are Andrena ziziae given the association.
Gladstone was a railroad maintenance yard. Buildings were removed years ago and it was a brome grass field with some oaks and used for storm water. A few years ago it was planted with native short and tall grass prairie grass and prairie flowers and is maintained with fire. There are clumps of Bee Balm scattered at the edges where lots of the bumblebees were, and wet areas with some Joe Pye Weed with more bees, and a variety of other native and some non-native plants.
Gladstone was a railroad maintenance yard. Buildings were removed years ago and it was a brome grass field with some oaks and used for storm water. A few years ago it was planted with native short and tall grass prairie grass and prairie flowers and is maintained with fire. There are clumps of Bee Balm scattered at the edges where lots of the bumblebees were, and wet areas with some Joe Pye Weed with more bees, and a variety of other native and some non-native plants.
Gladstone was a railroad maintenance yard. Buildings were removed years ago and it was a brome grass field with some oaks and used for storm water. A few years ago it was planted with native short and tall grass prairie grass and prairie flowers and is maintained with fire. There are clumps of Bee Balm scattered at the edges where lots of the bumblebees were, and wet areas with some Joe Pye Weed with more bees, and a variety of other native and some non-native plants.
Gladstone was a railroad maintenance yard. Buildings were removed years ago and it was a brome grass field with some oaks and used for storm water. A few years ago it was planted with native short and tall grass prairie grass and prairie flowers and is maintained with fire. There are clumps of Bee Balm scattered at the edges where lots of the bumblebees were, and wet areas with some Joe Pye Weed with more bees, and a variety of other native and some non-native plants.
Gladstone was a railroad maintenance yard. Buildings were removed years ago and it was a brome grass field with some oaks and used for storm water. A few years ago it was planted with native short and tall grass prairie grass and prairie flowers and is maintained with fire. There are clumps of Bee Balm scattered at the edges where lots of the bumblebees were, and wet areas with some Joe Pye Weed with more bees, and a variety of other native and some non-native plants.
I saw (the same? based on patch shape) male Rusty Patched bumblebee in our rain garden for the seventh day in a row. The silhouette picture shows seven segments and the antenna is kind of long. But I always get confused with a similar sized Half-Black bumblebee and take pictures of it instead. It has yellow on the top of its head instead of black like the Rusty-patched that I can't see from the street but shows up in a picture in the sun. Its brownish wings make its stripes brown sometimes. When it flies it definitely doesn't show a rusty patch.