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"Bee Swell" website
Bee Swell http://beeswell.org/ is a wonderful website that promotes awareness of problems our pollinators are facing today. They provide...
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How to attract hundreds of pollinators to your garden
After developing a mostly native plant garden in our current home, I now know which are the prime plants that will attract local...
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The Wool Carder Bee
Last Sunday we had beautiful weather. As you know from my posts, that day we released a female monarch butterfly a few days after she...
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Those rascal Wool Carder Bees
Every day we have Wool Carder Bee Anthidium manicatum visitors in both the front native garden and around the patio. The males are very...
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Bees love the dahlias
Earlier this summer I purchased a dahlia plant, "Bishop's Children" because the blossoms are so lovely. Because the colors vary, and...
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Summer Long-Horned Bee on Cosmos
I just love to observe the Summer Long-Horned bees Melissodes bimaculata. Up until last month I had never seen any, and now they are...
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Honey Bee and the Scabiosa Alba
All of this very warm, sometimes hot weather brings a lot of bees to the garden. Just as I hoped, plant their food sources and the...
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Black-tailed Bumble Bee sleeping
Look who was sleeping on a California Delta sunflower. Yet another bee that I had never seen before. This is a Black-tailed Bumble Bee,...
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California Carpenter Bee visiting Coreopsis Grandiflora patch
I'm starting to see more carpenter bees visiting the garden. This California Carpenter Bee female Xylocopa californica was very...
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Summer Long Horned Bee sleeping in the sunflower
Last week when I came home from work in the early evening I discovered this Summer Long-Horned male bee Melissodes robustior sleeping on...