Busy Honey Bee in the Margarita Bop Blossoms
What a delight to observe honey bees visiting the Margarita Bop Penstemon heterophyllus X 'Margarita BOP' blossoms. The bees, mostly...
Sleeping Yellow-Faced Bumble Bee
Yesterday morning the weather was fairly cool and windy. It was perfect weather to pull weeds, deadhead blooming plants, and fertilize...
Sweat bees are here
Sweat bees are amazing. You do need a trained eye to recognize them. I'm still learning and usually don't realize what they are until I...
Ivory Banded Digger Bee in the native garden
Those ivory banded digger bees are so hard to photograph because they seem to be in almost constant motion. They are constantly visiting...
Carpenter bee in the Bird's Eye Gilia patch
Ooh, it's nice to see the carpenter bees enjoying the nectar and pollen of the Bird's-Eye Gilia blossoms. This bee probably is a male,...
A Mining Bee and the Tricolored Gilia
The Tricolored or Bird's- Eye Gilia blossoms are attracting all kinds of bees, and it is such a treat to observe the bees as they collect...
More honey bee activity in the native garden
The Spring weather is producing more food sources for the pollinators. And I never tire of observing bee behavior. Above is a honey bee...
Flower flies love poppies too
Moments before I took this photo, this flower fly tried to chase away a yellow-faced bumble bee from the California alba poppy. But the...
Yellow-Faced Bumble Bees in the White California Poppies
The lovely White California Poppies "Alba" that I planted last year are lush again after winter and spring rains. They are such lovely...
Yellow Faced Bumble Bee in the Poppy Patch
The California poppies are blooming in full force now and the bees are having a great time in the poppy patches. In the image above see...
