It's not spring until you see honey bees, carpenter bees and butterflies on Tidy Tips.

That would be Layia platyglossa, a wildflower native to southern California. Its common name is "Tidy Tips" or "Coastal Tidy Tips." It's a daisylike flower with yellow petals tipped in white, thus the name. It's a member of the aster family.

A flower bed in the center of the UC Davis campus (near the Science  LaboratoriesBuilding) boasts an intermingling of  the yellow-and-white Tidy Tips and sky-blue Desert Blue Bells (Phacelia campanularia).

Gorgeous!

Insects think so, too. On any given day you'll see honey bees, carpenter bees, butterflies and lacewings holding family reunions.