Sublime Sunday - Scenes from the Missouri Botanical Garden

Here are a few scenes from a trip to the Missouri Botanical Gardens.
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A huge carpenter bee of some kind was eating pollen out of a firey blossom of some kind. I think these guys don't collect pollen they just eat it out of the flower.
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Here is another one probably drinking nectar and eating pollen out of another purple flower.
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Bee houses were nearby, these are for honey bees but I suspect they have some tubes drilled for the carpenter bees around here too.
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Here is a dragon fly feasting on some pollen of a sensitive plant. These plants have leaves that close when you touch them.

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The lotus flowers on the pond were also blooming. I wonder if they are any good for pollen or nectar?

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I rarely ever see anything flying into them.

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Here is a silver spotted skipper on some lupine looking flower. I rarely ever get a chance to photograph one since they are so fast.

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The garden also had some prickly pear cactus in it. More soon in the succulent growers community.
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Fall is starting here and the spiders are out everywhere. I suspect a huge cross spider was around here somewhere... Unless a bird ate it.
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Later I found a smaller one in a forested area. These guys are everywhere especially when I'm looking for mushrooms and end up getting covered in them.

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Now its off to avoid the mosquitos. They seem to avoid the spider webs somehow, maybe its by just brute force numbers...

That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)

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Wonderful nature photos from you again. I liked the photo with bees on flowers the most.

They were huge bees in the sun, easy for my zoom lens to focus. I wish birds would sit still like this more in a nice sunny open area lol.