Let's celebrate some of our hardest working pollinators today, World Bee Day
We should celebrate our hard working pollinators EVERY day, but at least a day is designated to officially celebrate bees. Above, a...
Sleeping bees
Take your time, keep your eyes and ears open when you are outdoors in nature, and you will witness the most amazing things. This morning...
Lambs ears are starting to bloom
The week has been mostly cloudy, cool and very breezy. But it looks like the very warm weather we had last weekend encouraged the lambs'...
Bee visitors today
What a wonderful scene, bees active all over the garden, humming everywhere. Above, one of the Yellow-faced bumblebees Bombus...
Wool Carder bee at work
The European Wool Carder bees Anthidium manicatum are back in the garden. I have observed several busily collecting for their nests...
Bees and All That Pollen
Look at all the pollen on the Tiny Metallic Sweat Bee Lasioglossum sp Halictidae. It is rolling in the pollen of a California poppy. One...