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On a California Buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum)
Carlsbad, CA
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Survey Metadata
Start: 12:11
End: 1:48
Temp: 70
Weather: Partly Cloudy

Directly adjacent to TP2 transect

male and female in copula

Bee on black sage (Salvia melliferra)

On lupine

ID confirmed by Dr John Ascher, Hymenoptera specialist for Discover Life and Bug Guide.

on lavender
Photo by Larry Umthun

Several individuals using the same hole.

Video: https://youtube.com/shorts/qVh7ZjQEH8s?feature=share

On a California Buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum)

Feeding on Western Redbud.

On Southern California Milkvetch (Astragalus trichopodus var. lonchus).
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Santa Ynez Canyon

Feeding on Cleveland Sage, a second, hairier individual showing up at the same time as https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/79283768.

Slicing into the tubular sage flowers.

LA River-Tujunga Wash
Saw at least 3 of these

Female on lavender.

Need help with the bee and I think this is a Texas Thistle flower.

Foraging on Achillea tomentosa.

15-16 mm in length.. wonderful silver color ..

on Ribes aureum

Found on wild bergamot in remnant prairie.

Osmia cornifrons, female, foraging on Stylophorum diphyllum. Note clypeal denticle in microscope shot.

Found on black-eyed susan.

Found sleeping just before a rainstorm in a meadow. Length approx 8-10mm

Feeding on Common Fiddleneck (Amsinckia menziesii). Very fast moving, and audible. Possibly Dimorphic?

~6mm length. Seen in our garden on Eriogonum giganteum. (live oak/chaparral habitat). ID by John S. Ascher @ BugGuide.

In a Splendid Mariposa

2476 ft elevation. On Cirsium occidentale var. venustum.

~8mm length. Seen in our garden (live oak/chaparral habitat). ID by John S. Ascher @ BugGuide.

Male Xenoglossa strenua foraging in cultivated pumpkin flower in a commercial pumpkin field.

Plant: Cornus racmosa

Feeding on Cliff Aster.

Monster mandibles. All black.

On California Brittlebush.
I noticed light brown organisms on the bee's neck, possibly mites, or eggs from a parasite?