Summer Long-horned male bees asleep
We have had a lot of Summer Long-horned bee activity in the garden for almost two months, now. They especially seem to love the Seacliff...
Sleeping bees
Late spring and early summer is when so much happens in the garden. After a heatwave week, our high temperatures are now around 70, at...
Busy Ivory-banded Digger Bees
It's so hard to photograph digger bees because they dart around so quickly, hardly landing anywhere for more than a nano-second. It was a...
Happy World Bee Day!
Hello there, Wool Carder male bee! There were three males constantly circling around the native Purple Sage plant. They are very...
Some stem-nesting bees don't emerge until the summer
If you can LEAVE the leaves and stems permanently. Your plants will produce new growth and blooms around the old stems. Click on the...
Who is in the garden?
The garden is now in autumn phase, most of the native plants preparing for winter sleep, but some, including all of the buckwheat, island...
Summer Long-horned bees still here!
I don't remember seeing Long-Horned bees visiting our current and previous gardens so late in the season. Usually they are gone by the...
Insect Extinction
Illustration by Armando Veve Very important article! Please read https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/01/where-have-all-the-insects...
Gum plants still blooming...
... And there's a lot of activity going on. For example, I took this photo of a Leafcutting bee on one of the gum plant flowers. I didn't...
The Essential Pacific Aster
This is the first year that we have been successful with our Pacific or California asters Symphyotrichum chilense, planted as seedlings....
