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...
Flower Flies
Some of the flower flies aka hoverflies family Syrphidae are so large that they closely resemble bees. Often I can't tell that they are...
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...
Here's looking at you...
This dragonfly decided to rest in the sun on the brick stonewall. I haven't been able to identify it yet. When it is in flight the wings...
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,...
What's not to love about the Bird's-Eye Gilia?
The lovely Bird's-Eye or Tricolor Gilia is a lovely California native. It is an annual and heavy nectar producer. Last year I purchased...
Cabbage moth and the Gilia blossoms
I spotted this cabbage moth enjoying the nectar of the gilia blossoms in our native plant garden. Yes, I know that the larva of these...
Ladybird larva!
While checking out the native garden today I saw these two strange critters on a dried up California Delta sunflower. It turns out we are...
