Leafcutting Bee carrying a big Piece of Leaf
Leafcutting Bee female with the piece it cut from a leaf, resting on a yew hedge From the corner of my eye, I caught some movement in...
Satyr Anglewing visiting
This is a first for us. A Satyr Anglewing Polygonia satyrus visited our backyard. I had never seen one before, let alone in our own...
More buckwheat!!!
Yellow-faced bumble bee flying around Ella Nelson's Yellow Nude buckwheat With our ongoing drought conditions, I've come to the...
Celebrate the 5th International Monarch Monitoring Blitz by Participating All Across North America!
Here is your chance to be a citizen scientist and gather data to help the scientific community conserve the monarch butterfly along its...
Gray Hairstreak Butterfly
Skippers and other little native butterflies like to lay their eggs on our Seacliff Eriogonum parvifolium and Ella Nelson's Yellow...
For everyone who is creating habitat and planting milkweed for monarch butterflies
Here is an awesome video with the sound of millions of monarchs flying off of their overwintering site in Mexico. The video was made in...
Yellow-Faced Bumble Bees at work
We definitely seem to have a lot of Yellow-Faced Bumble Bees Bombus vosnesenskii in the garden. They are so cute. Here is a rear view of...
Leaf Cutting Bee and the Echinacea blossom
Last autumn was the first time I planted a coneflower seedling in a large container in our backyard. The seedling grew a couple of inches...
First sighting of a Summer Long-Horned Bee
So exciting! The Summer Long-Horned Bees are back! This Summer Long-horned Bee male Melissodes robustior was perched on top of a dried...
They're here!
Monarch caterpillar on a native Showy milkweed leaf Monarch butterfly mamas have been busy laying eggs on our potted native milkweed...
