Posts Tagged: Robbin Thorp
Home Invasion!
When you install bee condos--those wooden blocks with holes drilled in them to attract nesting...
Earwig inside a blue orchard bee condo, which has larger holes than one for leafcutting bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This bee condo for leafcutting bees has 10 tenants. It is about the size of a brick and has smaller holes than a bee block for blue orchard bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Leafcutting bee provisioning her nest. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
No Sweat
Gotta love those dragonflies in the family Libellulidae.The Thunderbirds of the insect world, they...
Flame skimmer munches on a female sweat bee of the genus Halictus. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Flame skimmer is long and lean with huge compound eyes. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Now That's a Fly!
Oh, to go through life being called a "short fat fly."Such is the case with a specific tachinid fly...
Short fat fly (genus Gymnosoma) on coreopsis at Fort Bragg. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The larvae of this "short fat fly" feed on stink bugs. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Putting the 'Sun' in Sunflower
It's often mistaken for the honey bee.But it's not a honey bee (Apis mellifera). It's a different...
Sunflower bee, Svastra obliqua expurgata, on Gaillardia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of the long-horn sunflower bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Berry, Berry Fine!
If you're gearing up for the Fourth of July weekend, you'll probably head to the farmers' market, a...
Honey bee pollinating a strawberry blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Luscious, freshly picked strawberries. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Little visitor to the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven samples a strawberry. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)