Posts Tagged: artichoke
Purple Reign
Sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees. Sometimes you can't see the trees for the...
A honey bee visiting a flowering artichoke. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Packing white pollen, a honey bee makes a return visit to the flowering artichoke while she cleans her proboscis (tongue). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Two honey bees are dusted with pollen from the flowering artichoke. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bee-ware! A honey bee touches down--nearly on a tiny crab spider. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Artichoke in Bloom: Bee Food
Bee food. That's what the globe artichoke is. Bee food. Many of us let our artichokes flower, not...
Honey bees flying in formation toward an artichoke in bloom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Carrying heavy loads of pollen, bees look for more. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A hot spot! Honey bees engage in a little pushing and shoving. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Soaking Up Sunshine
In the entomological world, we call that a "two-fer." Two insects in the same photo. Sunday...
A fiery skipper and a damselfly sharing the same spot: an artichoke leaf. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of fiery skipper, Hylephila phyleus, belonging to the family Hesperiidae. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Plume Moth Fit to a 'T'
In some respects, the pterophorid plume moth is fit to a 'T.' "The T-square shape is classic,"...
The plume moth is tiny. It's shown here on the finger of native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp, emeritus professor of entomology at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The plume moth at rest resembles a wind turbine. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Purple Forest
Flowering artichokes indicate one of two things (1) someone never bothered to harvest them or (2)...
Honey bee heads toward a flowering artichoke. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Touchdown! (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
You can't see the forest for the bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)