divsion of labor

on the south side of the house there is a bed of jerusalem artichokes wirh maize planted along the permeter..i was just out there watching and...

the bumble bees were all over the jerusalem artichoke blooms...

while not two feet away the leaf cutters were busy working the cornflowers...and there was no cross-training on other blooms between them...prefernce? perhaps...although...

i have seen leaf cutters on jerusalem artichokes...

and bumble bees doing acrobatics on bittersweet nightshade blooms...certainly there were unoccupied bloons of both sorts...enought o go around and, curiously to my thinking...

no one was paying any attention tot he raft of maize and teosinte flowers out on the east side.