It's World Bee Day!
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In honor of our hardworking bees, here are some that are busy in our garden all day long.
In the photo above, one of our many Yellow-faced Bumble Bees Bombus vosnesenskii visitors in a California poppy.
Note the full orange pollen basket on its hind leg.
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Another Yellow-faced Bumble bee landing in a tattered California poppy.
The poppies in our garden are often buffeted in the strong winds that we experience here.
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A Wool Carder Bee Anthidium manicatum creating for its nest a ball of fiber from underneath a Lambs Ear leaf.
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Peek-a-boo Wool Carder Bee behind a dandelion leaf in the native patch.
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