Everybody Out of the Pool

It's raining bumble bees in our pool.

Yellow-faced bumble bees (Bombus vosnesenskii).

And honey bees (Apis mellifera), too.

While nectaring lavender, catmint, tower of jewels, sedum and other plants, some of the foragers land in our pool. Talk about no depth perception.

We fish them out and most survive. (A floating piece of styrofoam now provides them with a little protection from the untimely dips.)

For the two below, it was definitely a bad hair day.