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A 'Morning' Carpenter Bee and an Evening Primrose
As National Pollinator Month winds down, let's visit a "morning" carpenter bee and an evening...
A female Valley carpenter bee, Xylocopa sonorina, heads for evening primrose in a Vacaville pollinator garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Valley carpenter bee slides inside the evening primrose. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Valley carpenter bee rolling in the pollen of the evening primrose. Note the metallic wings. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
And it's off to forage in another blossom. Valley carpenter bee is loaded with pollen. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
