Recently, several carpenter bees have loved flying around my marigolds. When I came home today around 4 PM I noticed that there were 4 that were barely moving. They didn't seem too concerned when I put my hand beside them. According to my weather app, it is 70° outside, and this particular Marigold is in the shade.

While walking home from work, I saw this girl crawling on burning hot pavement on a very sunny 27 degree celsius day (I live in New Zealand) . I picked her up and tried my best to shade her while I went back home. She was clearly very weak and dehydrated. She look a nap in my palm and tried to fly off after she cooled off but had no strength and just fell to the ground. I had to pick her back up two times and she took another nap.

I eventually went back home, made some sugar water syrup and dipped some dandelion flowers in them and fed it to her. She was so hungry/thirsty. I left her in the shade. After half an hour I checked on her she was buzzing around and refused to be picked up clearly very energised. She flew off on her own shortly. I wished I got more pictures of her healthy. I don’t think she will find her hive as I’ve walked about 1.5km from where I found her but I hope she lives a few more weeks :)

Caught this guy working my blue sage (Salvia azurea) this week. The pale yellow patch on his face means he's a male eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica). Males have no stinger, so all the hovering and dive-bombing around porches is bluff.

The quick way to tell carpenter bees from bumble bees is the abdomen. A carpenter bee's is shiny and mostly bald, and a bumble bee's is fuzzy all the way back.

Anyone else in Ohio still seeing carpenter bees this late?

This white bee got stuck on one of our sticky traps. What’s up with it? Why is it this colour? Found in lower mainland B.C. Canada

I'm very popular with the bees outside I call them "my Lil vultures."