It always makes me happy when I see honeybees gathering pollen from the flowers. This bee was collecting from the Shasta Daisies blooming in the butterfly garden. There are three large clumps of Shasta's,

It feels weird calling this a harvest, cause I am not consuming them. But I am indeed "processing" the cocoons and giving them a better chance of survival. And at the same time reducing the predator

The Autumn Joy succulent is now budding, it produced hundreds of tiny flowers clustered together making a pillow a buds for insects to visit. They have noticed and day and night nonstop insects have been

For the last few years I have been increasing the population of a wild bee I attracted. I knew they were Mason bees due to them making mud homes. But I have had some trouble figuring out which species