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 Reserve in the upper Carmel Valley, Monterey County, and admired the yellow-faced bumble bees and other native bees foraging on vetch and lupine in the meadows, that's a scene you'll never forget. But...
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, displayed quite a heavy load of orange pollen recently as it foraged on hairy vetch in the Hastings Preserve, Carmel, owned and operated by the University of California, Berkeley. Did you know...
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, in a meadow at the Hastings Preserve in Carmel in early May during the BugShot Macro Photography Course, taught by Alex Wild, John Abbott and Thomas Shahan. The day-flying moth, as identified by...
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)