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...
Inspiring UK video about attractiveness of garden plants to bees and other insects
Very inspiring UK video! So true about lambs ears - I always observe mostly wool carder bees on the flowers, and the males are VERY...
Big birds and the bath
It is so funny to see the local large birds using the bird bath. The small and medium sized birds, such as California towhees, House...
Ultra-green sweat bee on cosmos
This is the first time I observed an ultra-green sweat bee Agapostemon texanus here in our garden. In the image above it had just landed...
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...
A hooded oriole visits
These photos of a hooded oriole were taken 10 days ago, from our kitchen porch and through a screen door to the patio. I was standing on...
Western Scrub Jays on the Crabapple tree
Western Scrub Jays are in our neighborhood and the garden all year round. Within the past month at least one fledgling has been around...
An American Lady butterfly
An American Lady Lady Vanessa virginiensis butterfly visited the patio yesterday afternoon. It landed on a buddleia flower head and...
