Posts Tagged: vetch
Learning About Native Bees with The Experts
Oh, what a treasure to bee-hold! If you've ever visited UC Berkeley's Hastings Natural History...
A yellow-faced bumble bee nectaring on vetch in May 2015 at Hastings Natural History Reserve. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, heads for vetch at the Hastings Natural History Reserve. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenkii, is a whirl of anticipation as it nears lupine at the Hastings Natural History Reserve. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Blue sky, vetch, a yellow-faced bumbe bee and all's right with the world. This photo was taken in May 2015 at the Hastings Natural History Reserve. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Check Out the Pollen!
Talk about a pollen-packing bumble bee. A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii,...
Check out the heavy load of orange pollen that this yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, is packing. It is foraging on hairy vetch. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
One Cool Little Moth: Schinia sueta!
Ever heard of Schinia sueta? It's a moth. We spotted this little moth, from the Noctuidae family,...
This moth, Schinia sueta, feeds on hairy vetch, Vicia villosa, in a meadow at Hastings Preserve, Carmel. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Schinia sueta is a day-flying moth. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Off to the next flower! Schinia sueta foraging on hairy vetch, Vicia villosa. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)