2023 Photograph, Maypop, Purple Passionflower, True Passionflower, Wild Apricot, or Wild Passion Vine with Bumblebee (Passiflora incarnata, Passiflora Family, Passifloraceae), Fairfax, Virginia, © 2023.
Bumblebees are highly attracted to Maypop flowers. The top of their thorax is usually coated with pollen which comes from the stamens that the bees rub against while getting nectar.

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