{"id":139449,"date":"2014-12-30T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=c0ded3f85282330207c02163f0f1bc1b"},"modified":"2026-07-16T07:59:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:59:40","slug":"remembering-summer-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/remembering-summer-bees\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Summer Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know everyone is busy with holiday preparation, so just a few words about some bees I saw in June.<\/p>\n

I’ve seen this bee before — it’s Bombusfervidus, commonly called the golden northern bumble bee.<\/p>\n

But it has always managed to fly away before I could take a photograph.<\/p>\n

I snuck up on this one while its head was deep inside a wild bergamot blossom.<\/p>\n

See all the furry yellow stripes on its abdomen?<\/p>\n

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The bumblebees I usually see are these common eastern bumblebees, Bombus impatiens. Note the black abdomens and short yellow jackets. I saw all the bees in this blog post in Brooklyn Heights.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I also sometimes see brown-belted bumblebees, Bombus griseocollis, like this one. Note the “hip-length” furry jacket.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The golden northern bumblebee again — I’d call that a “knee-length” yellow fur coat if bees had their knees where ours are.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I know everyone is busy with holiday preparation, so just a few words about some bees I saw in June. I’ve seen this bee before — it’s Bombusfervidus, commonly called the golden northern bumble bee. But it has always managed to fly away before I could take a photograph. I snuck up on this one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":2148417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[472,1496,2450],"class_list":["post-139449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-bumble-bee","tag-bumblebee","tag-julie-feinstein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}