When I popped out to take a photograph for Bug of the Week, I really didn’t expect to find much new.
But then I spotted this little solitary bee on a leaf.
It appeared to be doing something with its mouthparts on the leaf.
Do you have any idea what it might be doing? I’ll give you a hint, the plant is a brittlebush.
Yesterday was a lovely day for a walk through a botanical garden. It’s enough to make one wax poetic.
Flowers dressing up with a bee for jewelry.
The warm brown seed beetle looks rather like the seed it was born inside.
Another kind of green malachite attracts your eye.
Captivating captive beauties.
Feels like we need some words of wisdom today. How about:
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
March is a wonderful month for bee watching in the Sonoran Desert.
Seems like every flower has a bee visiting.
Sweat bees seem to like the lemon blossoms.
Penstemons appeal to digger bees.
Fiddleneck (Amsinckia intermedia) is also a favorite.
No, that isn’t a bee. Flies like fiddleneck, too.
All these photographs were taken within a half hour in our back yard. The bees are very busy!
Do you have bees flying where you live?
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