Busy Ivory-banded Digger Bees

It's so hard to photograph digger bees because they dart around so quickly, hardly landing anywhere for more than a nano-second.

It was a triumph to capture these busy little bees in action.

In the top photo, an Ivory-banded Digger bee is sipping nectar from a Hot Lips Salvia microphylla 'Hot Lips' blossom.

This is a large shrub planted by previous tenants. I noticed that digger bees and carpenter bees are frequent visitors on the shrub.

The Ivory-banded Digger bee here is caught in flight approaching the flower head of our native Purple Sage Salvia leucophylla Purple.

These bees always look so determined, with their large proboscises.