Posts Tagged: Leslie Saul-Gershenz
Bees, Parasites and Maybe the End?
Thursday, Nov. 7 promises to be an exciting day for the Northern California Entomology Society--a...
A digger bee, Habropoda pallida, with blister beetle larvae. (Photo by Leslie Saul-Gershenz)
Mighty Mites on a Damselfly
It pays to have a pond. A pond attracts dragonflies and damselflies. Last weekend, though, we...
Damselfly, with water mites attached, lands on the leaf of a passion flower vine. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Coming Right at You
It's not often you see a monarch butterfly and a digger bee in the same photo. Such was the case...
Monarch butterfly nectaring lantana, while a digger bee, Anthophora urbana, heads toward it. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Phoresy!
Phoresy!If that word is not in your everyday vocabulary, just think of a symbiotic relationship...
Larvae of a blister beetle, Meloe franciscanus, on a digger bee, Habropoda pallida. (Photo by Leslie Saul-Gershenz, used with permission)
Digger bee, Habropoda pallida, a solitary ground-nesting bee, on Borrego milkvetch. (Photo by Leslie Saul-Gershenz, used with permission)