The Lucky Seven: Seven Sleeping Bees

Okay, boys, listen up! You're the Lucky Seven! Count yourselves. There are seven of you--seven male Melissodes agilis bees--sleeping on a single spent Mexican sunflower blossom (Tithonia rotundifola). Do you know how lucky you are? No, not that you escaped the hungry flameskimmer dragonfly patrolling the yard on July 7. Or the cunning spider building its web. You're the Lucky Seven! Forget the Seven Deadly Sins, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Seven Wonders of the World, Seven Seas,...