Posts Tagged: yellow
Battle Over the Lavender: Mine, All Mine!
A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, is foraging on lavender in...
A yellow-face bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, is interrupted by a fast-approaching honey bee as it's nectaring on lavender in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Get Ready...It's Happening...World Bee Day...
Get ready...it's happening...the annual World Bee Day... Monday, May 20 is World Bee Day, as...
A bumble bee forages on Coreopsis in Vacaville. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Yellow pollen from Coreopsis covers this bumble bee like gold dust. (Photo by Kathy Keatley)
Here's a good foraging spot on the Coreopsis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Wings up, time to go. A bumble bee ready to take flight from a Coreopsis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
There Is No Planet 'B'
There is no "Planet B." The Earth is all we have. Today, April 22, is Earth Day (an annual...
A yellow-faced bumble bee,Bombus vosnesenskii, buzzes into a barely opened California golden poppy in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Check the orange pollen on this yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
And we have a lift-off! The pollen basket is easily recognized here. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ready for take-off! The bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, prepares to leave the California golden poppy. Both are natives. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Blooms and Bombus in Benicia
There she was, a beautiful yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, foraging Feb. 27 on...
A bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, foraging on trailing African daisies at the Matthew Turner Shipyard Park, Benicia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of a bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, foraging on trailing African daisies at the Matthew Turner Shipyard Park, Benicia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
About That Yellow-Legged Hornet Detected in Georgia
Folks in Georgia have more than Georgia on their minds. It's about this yellow-legged hornet...
The egg-shaped nest of a yellow-legged hornet, Vespa velutina. This 33 feet high on a Liriodendron tulipífera and identified in November 2015 at the Plaza Pedro Nunes, Porto, Portugal. It became visible when autumn leaves fell. (Photo by Paula Jorge, courtesy of Wikipedia)
The yellow-legged hornet, Vespa velutina. (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)