Photo: Bees buzz now in the Arctic

Nunavummiut are still a few months away from summer, but they can visit scenes like this in a new book called “Common Insects of Nunavut.” Pictured here buzzing on the tundra is a bumblebee, known as iguttaq or igutsaq in Inuktitut, the most common of the bee species found in Nunavut. The territory is home to almost a dozen species of bumblebees, and three of them live as far north as the High Arctic. Read more about Nunavut’s insect kingdom later on Nunatsiaqonline.ca. (PHOTO BY CAROLYN MALLORY)