California Wildlife Gardens ~ Debbie Ballentine:
Female digger bees on Delta sunflower
California Wildlife Gardens ~ Debbie Ballentine:
White spider catches honeybee!
California Wildlife Gardens ~ Debbie Ballentine:
Teddy Bear Bee
California Wildlife Gardens ~ Debbie Ballentine:
Sleeping Longhorn Bees (Melissodes sp.)
California Wildlife Gardens ~ Debbie Ballentine:
Bumblebee and Arroyo Lupine (Lupinus succulentus)
California Wildlife Gardens ~ Debbie Ballentine:
Carpenter Bee and Arroyo Lupine (Lupinus succulentus)
California Wildlife Gardens ~ Debbie Ballentine:
Arroyo Lupine (Lupinus succulentus) and Bumblebee
California Wildlife Gardens ~ Debbie Ballentine:
Honey Bee on Eriogonum wrightii (Wright's Buckwheat)
California Wildlife Gardens ~ Debbie Ballentine:
Look Ma, no hands!
California Wildlife Gardens ~ Debbie Ballentine:
Honeybee on Desert Lavender
California Wildlife Gardens ~ Debbie Ballentine:
Honeybee on Desert Lavender
California Wildlife Gardens ~ Debbie Ballentine:
Queen Butterfly and Honeybee (Danaus gilippus)
California Wildlife Gardens ~ Debbie Ballentine:
Honeybee on Ray Hartman Ceanothus
California Wildlife Gardens ~ Debbie Ballentine:
Honeybee on Dark Star Ceanothus
California Wildlife Gardens ~ Debbie Ballentine:
Bees and Arroyo Lupine (Lupinus succulentus)
California Wildlife Gardens ~ Debbie Ballentine:
Bumblebee and Arroyo Lupine (Lupinus succulentus)
California Wildlife Gardens ~ Debbie Ballentine:
Bumblebee and Arroyo Lupine (Lupinus succulentus)
California Wildlife Gardens ~ Debbie Ballentine:
Bumble bee and Dark Star Ceanothus. I love the pink buds with the blue flowers on this drought tolerant shrub. It will be covered in flowers and pollinators as soon as the temps warm up.
California Wildlife Gardens ~ Debbie Ballentine:
Male Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa varipuncta) on Globe Gilia (Gilia capitata)
California Wildlife Gardens ~ Debbie Ballentine:
Female Valley Carpenter Bee on Clarkia ungriculata