Posts Tagged: Calandrinia grandiflora
Between a Rock and a...
Caught between a rock and a...soft place... You'll often see tiny sweat bees nectaring rock...
Sweat Bee
Ready to Fly
In the Pink
Thunder boomed across the garden.The carpenter bee (Xylocopata tabaniformis orpifex) meant...
Carpenter Bee
Pollen-Covered Carpenter Bee
Like a Rock
The rock purslane (Calandrinia grandiflora) attracts its share of insects. This morning the...
Rock purslane
Hover fly
Spider
Visitor in the Garden
The rain and wind took turns destroying the flowers in our garden last Sunday in a siege not unlike...
Visitor in the garden
Heaven Can Wait
They danced in it, rolled in it, and bathed in it. The honey bees just couldn't get enough of the...
A honey bee can't wait for the Calandrinia grandiflora to open. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Two honey bees, packed with red pollen, share the same flower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee exits the rock purslane flower and heads for another one. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)