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Field Cuckoo Bumble Bee. Bombus compestris.  Most bumble bees do what you would suppose.  Nest members go out gather pollen and nectar and feed their brethren and sisteren.  Queen Mom after getting the nest going stays in the nest for the rest of her life until she comes to a natural end ("natural end":  this is what people who write about bumble bees like to say, but, in reality, end of life times for a queen is probably nasty (but, then again, that would be me pretending that I was a queen bumble bee and had human awareness at the same time...which, of course, does not happen)).  Back to cuckoos.  There are some species of bumble bees that skip all the bother of collecting pollen and nectar and simply go into a hard working, pollen collecting colony; kill the original queen and make her kids raise her own young. This is one of them.   Many TV plots lines have this same theme running through them.  Oh, this beauty was collected by Peter Šima in Podbanské, Slovakia.  Picture taken by Cole Cheng.    

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Neoclytus scutellaris, one of the cerambycid beetles.  Its larvae are apparent fans of dead Hickories.  An apparent new record for Prince George's County Maryland at the site of one of the proposed MAGLEV train yards.  Photo by Anders Croft.

that occurs throughout most of North America East of the Rockies.  Occurs in low numbers at most locations, in the Mid-Atlantic is is a June bee and associated with what would appear to be mostly Woody blooming plants.   Something to consider in your planting pollinator plans... don't forget the blooming shrubs and small trees. Photo by Brooke Goggins.      

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You know, as a society, we have thought a great deal about plants, but mostly on the food and prettiness spectrums not so much on the ecological slider.  So, here you have a Physalis seed husk, on the food end of the spectrum the genus gets about a 3.5 because tomatillos are in here, and a couple of other edibles, but its not one of the food powerhouses.  I give it an 8 on prettiness as I have liked the husk form since I grew Chinese Lanterns as a kid (I was a weird kid...).  Otherwise it is a weed for most and our native members are mostly ignored.  Yet, some of our bee friends depend on this plant (Colletes latitarsis is one) and only feed their babies the pollen from this group.  Look more closely and there are bunches of other bugs (and doubtless fungi and single celled things) that orbit this plant's life.  So much we don't know, but yet, we can soften the impacts of our yards by simply letting the native plants (and friends) stay and reducing the plants that do not provide food and shelter to the other beings in our region.   Specimen collected and photographed on Patuxent Wildlife Research Refuge  

This relatively large mite parasitizes honeybees from adults to larvae.  Crab-like aren't they?  Specimen provided by Krisztina Christmon from the University of Maryland where she studies the life history of these tricky beings. Oh, that is the tip of an insect pin you see in the picture.