If you want to attract all manners of bees, bumblebbes, and wasps, then this is the plant for you! My Globe Thistle plant has about 30 flowers, and every second one seems to have one of the pollenators probing them…

Photographed in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Canon 7D + 100mm f/2.8 macro, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/125s., f/4.5, ISO 800.