Posts Tagged: Coreopsis
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)
Native Bee, Native Flower, Sunny California
Just a day in the life of a native bee on a native flower in native California. Svastra obliqua...
A female sunflower bee, Svastra obliqua expurgata, heads for a Coreopsis. Both are natives to California. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Start here...the sunflower bee, Svastra obliqua expurgata, begins to forage. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Clockwise works for this sunflower bee, Svastra obliqua expurgata. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Well, hello, there! The sunflower bee, Svastra, looks up at the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Beeing Friendly.
By Cynthia Kerson, UC Master Gardener of Napa County For the past few years, I've been...
Bees love flowers. (Unsplash/k-mitch-hodge)
Bees love purple flowers. (Unsplash/brinzan-sabina)
Bees love sunflowers. (Unsplash/odin-aerni)
Bees love cherry blossoms. (Unsplash/zuleika-sequeira)
Raised bed beginning. (Pinterest)
Lasagne method, sheet compost; find how-to link at the end of the article. (UC ANR)
Wildflowers love full sun. (GetDrawings.com)
China aster. (Eden Brothers)
Baby blue eyes. (Earthcare Seeds)
Shirley poppy. (The Press Democrat)
Tidy tips. (Park Seed)
Coreopsis with bee. (Public Domain Pictures)
Find the bee. Bees love borage. (Beverly Bee)
Composites, Part One: Add Sun(flowers) to Your Garden
By Jeff Oster, UC Master Gardener of Butte County, October 5, 2018 The Asteraceae is a very large...
A Bee That's a Delight to See
What's that on the Coreopsis? Could it be--a bee? Yes, that's the metallic green sweat bee, also...
Female metallic green sweat bee, Agapostemon texanus, on coreopsis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Female metallic green sweat bee peers at the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)