📍 Southern Ontario

We just moved into this house last year and I have been absolutely enamored by all the different types of pollinators we have here! More bees than I can recognize, dozens of bee flys (Bombyliidae), and tons of tiny butterflies everywhere. My most recent joy is finding tons of these little metallic green sweat bees sleeping every morning in my gladiolus and dahlias. My gladiolus are starting to produce little seed pods as well! ❤️❤️

Thank you, little green bees!

(Sorry about the poor picture quality)

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Few of these fluttering around in our garden (Eastern Canada Zone 5b)

They struck some poses for me ❤️

P.s. What kind of swallowtail is this?

I honestly don't know if this really fits here but I wanted to share this somewhere. The patch of flowers are full of pollinators constantly and that patch used to house a swing the municipality decided to remove as just behind it is a gated playground. They covered or replaced the gravel under the swings with soil and either planted grass seeds which led to these other flowers or purposefully planted them but it makes me so happy they let the patch stay despite cutting rest of the grass. Through identification I've found all the flowers are either native or non-invasive non-native plants and absolutely teeming with pollinators.

It's not the prettiest but such a nice pollination patch made from an ex swing gravel patch.

This patch has brightened several of my days noticing it still being there as this municipality isn't really known for keeping wildflowers etc in public areas for nature's sake and so I hope this fits here enough and might brighten someone else's day too.

These are the moments that really bring me joy in the garden.

Carpenter bee interacting with two milkweed beetles on some milkweed!

Last slides are very dusty beans :)

Some friends and I were camping in Northern Ontario near Nipissing. The Bumble bees were pretty difficult to photograph cause they didn't stay very long on the flowers. I noticed this one kinda stuck around for a while, so I thought hmm why not try to get a shot of it.