One of the neat things about heightening my focus towards life around me, even the smallest of insects, is that when I pause to observe one thing, my stillness often invites others to move into frame.
In this case a sutured longhorn beetle caught my attention and then a ligated furrow bee stopped by.
A ligated furrow bee collects pollen next to a longhorn beetle, atop a prairie coneflower.
A red and black sutured longhorn beetle noshing on the pollen of a prairie coneflower.
