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...
Monarch butterfly raised and released
Success again! Here is a female monarch butterfly that emerged from its chrysalis two days ago. Today we released the female monarch...
Butterflies, butterflies, butterflies
Now we are seeing a lot of butterflies around the garden, both in the native garden area and patio. They are always so lovely, flitting...
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,...
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...
Little skipper on a buckwheat flower head
I spotted this lovely little male common checkered-skipper pyrgus communis on one of the buckwheat plant flower heads. It is a very...
Rolling in the California Poppy
Ah, here is another yellow-faced bumble bee bombus vosnesenskii collecting pollen from a California poppy. These bees are so much fun to...
Fiery Skipper sleeping in the sunflower
A few evenings ago, I noticed this lovely little butterfly sleeping in one of the Delta Sunflowers. What great camouflage! I had never...
Bees in the native garden
It's so much fun to observe the bees visiting our native plant garden. In the photo above is a honey bee in one of the Cosmos Cupcake...
The native garden
Here are some images of our native (almost all native) garden now. I am very proud of how it looks and have my vision of how it will look...
