Honeybees & Orange Milkweed

For the past couple of weeks I've posted several photos of insects and common milkweed, but there's another milkweed blooming in the neighborhood, orange milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa).



The orange milkweed plant may not look like the common milkweed, the individual flowers are the same shape.



Orange milkweed is also known as Butterfly Weed and Butterfly Milkweed because it attracts butteries, but it aslo attracts honeybees.



It may have been a little too cold or windy for the butterflies today, but the honeybees didn't mind the weather.