Also some other critters.

If anyone can identify who's who in these pictures, that would be grand.

And please add in your own close encounters of the insect kind.

I think this is Peck's Skipper but hard to tell. All these skippers look the same.

a very hardworking bee, covered in pollen

hard to see but there's a tiny bee in there

big bee

maybe a Sachem Skipper?

bee on coreopsis

do not know what this guy is

some kind of wasp

I would not want to meet this guy in an alley