Perfect sun for better detail on small bees--plus a lot of insects using the chives. There is a native onion nearby on the hill and I wonder if that attracts the same bees. Must keep that in mind for a future informal study next year!
Long-horned bee (could it be Mellisodes?) on vetch flower.
I spotted this bee, got two photos and it left. This was the only time I saw it (10 years observations around our house) and I have not seen it again.
Tiny megachilid type with enormous jaws, on cultivated flower. (Photo setting was bumped, so color is off on flowers, which are a pale blue-violet.
Metallic green, less than 1/2" bee on chives. The small bees were diving down inside the flowers to get the goodies. The eye on this particular bee is magnificent.
Have seen two of these or one that walked from one side of the house to the other. (Take photo quicker next time!)
Tiny bee with warm golden tones and light bands on abdomen, light warm green metallic head and thorax, hairy legs.
Bright green, medium sized bee. Might be a male, I don't see scopa?
Bee, shiny dark green abdomen, golden hairs on thorax, interesting eyes. simultaneous visit by a bee fly? On volunteer wallflower.
Fly was overlooking a bee while it was inside a volunteer wallflower.
Male bee, might have been warming up, as it was sunny, but not that hot yet. He would patrol and then stop on the warm rocks a while. golden hairs on thorax, thin stripes on abdomen, jade green eyes, antennae appear to be translucent brown (maybe dull red?) with darker tips, nice thick mustache.
Long thin flying insect, on cultivated geum.
Another metallic green bee. Not sure if this is a repeat specimen, but I think this may be a female with larger mandibles?
Could this also be a Subgenus Synhalonia? Similar hair patches on abdomen, similar coloring, but shorter antennae.
Sage green hairy thorax, orange on wings, club antennae. On culinary chives.
Ribbed (Michelin Man) type dark abdomen with thin, pale bands at lower edge. On chives.
Brown and white pattern, feathered edges on wings, on Creeping Thyme.
Creeping thyme, flowers about 4mm. Small bee has to stand on flower petals to reach anthers' pink pollen.
Golden thorax hairs, dark, metallic abdomen. I think I can see three submarginal cells in wing. On Cascara, Rhamnus purshiana.
Thick medium brown and black antennae, yellow-black-brown striped abdomen, some white hairs, wasp-like shape, on Rhamnus purshiana, Cascara.
Abdomen: T1, T2 yellow, T3, T4, part of T5 red-orange, tail tip black. Long face, yellow hairs on face, scutum, scutellum. on Rhamnus purshiana, Cascara tree.
Small bee, striped abdomen, on Rhamnus purshiana.
Straw-colored face & thorax, black abdomen with some straw colored stripes, aqua green eyes, on Rhamnus purshiana, Cascara.
Yellow and black wasp on Salix scouleriana, Scouler's willow. It was eating up tiny creatures (aphids?) as it worked its way around the leaf.
Pale yellow crab spider with birghter yellow legs, ready to grab a victim, on ceonothus.
many small beetles on Arrowleaf Balsamroot.
I mostly have Bulbous Woodland-Star, but I think this may be another type.
Small green bee on Arrowleaf Balsamroot.
Mason bee building home in post that has mortar holding stones to plywood box beneath. View 1 seems to show something in bee's mandibles.
Green bees were investigating these holes. Only the one posted previous to this seems to have used any of the holes on this porch post. I did put out a bee hotel and got one of those holes filled, but not these. This set is on the north side of the post where morning light hits the stones, but not the nests under the capstone.
This is a combination. If I remember correctly I saw a wasp place a couple tubes perpendicular to the one that is most recognizable in this photo. They hatched out sometime the next year. Then something made a nest in those holes and it seems it might be a leafcutter bee, as there is what looks like plant material in the hold left of center. I think there were two or three holes filled like that. Then another nest was built across those, blocking them in. See June 12, 2018, as there are holes in these that indicate something hatched and cut its way out.
Beetle on lupine buds, then it walked down onto the leaf.
Two very small green metallic winged bees or wasps on lupine leaf.
Better able to tell it is not a bee here. Very small metallic green wasp on lupine leaf. Possibly same as pair of wasps in other post same date.
One more beetle, same as other two observations to give more details. Different individual on open lupine blossom.
Upside-down yellow t-shape on face. Hyleaus or ceratina?
Shaped somewhat similar to Lady beetle, but with brown, splotchy pattern. On sand cherry. probably less than 1/4" long, small anyway.
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