Winter is coming

This is somehow very sad. Every fall I see them - bumblebees who died on the job. This one has dew all over her, and is stiff - clinging to the coryopteris blossom. I know that bumblebees die out in the fall, only the young queens surviving till the spring, but the little corpses holding so tightly to the flowers is a melancholy sign of oncoming winter.

added Oct 1 2010: Well, I'm pleased to hear (and test out!) that they're only sleeping! Apparently in the fall they sometimes stay out too late, get too chilled to fly, and just sleep wherever they were until the sun warms them up again. I know they're still going to die soon, but not yet! Not yet!