Blooms in the backyard

In the Minnesota backyard, some of the summer blooms are in their full glory, particularly the purple coneflower. Butterflies and bees are drawn to these flowers…

A Great Spangled Fritillary stopped by…

And examined each of the disk flowers in the flower head intensively.

I caught the approach of one of the honeybees buzzing the coneflowers.

And was able to zero in on the bee when it landed.

Even the Goldfinches were checking on the flower heads, I suppose to see if they had made any seed yet. But these flowers have just opened up in the last few days.