This week is National Pollinator Week! It was initiated
and is managed by the Pollinator Partnership. The Pollinator Partnership
is a great resource for all things pollinators and you can get more
information at their website:
To
celebrate we have compiled several of our favorite pollinator photos
that were taken around our Farms by the owner, John Anderson. Enjoy
these and get out this weekend and look around for pollinators in your
area.
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| A bumblebee on phacelia, Phacelia californica |
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| A swallowtail butterfly on coyote mint, Monardella villosa |
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| A bumblebee on common madia, Madia elegans |
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| A swallowtail butterfly on pink flowering currant, Ribes sanguineum var. glutinosum |
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| A honeybee getting ready to land on common madia, Madia elegans |
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| A bumblebee on bull clover, Trifolium fucatum |
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| A skipper butterfly on goldenrod, Euthamia occidentalis |
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| A honeybee heading for vinegarweed, Trichostema lanceolatum |
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| A Buckeye butterfly on button-willow, Cephalanthus occidentalis |
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| Some honeybees and a butterfly enjoying coyote brush, Baccharis pilularis |
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| A bumble bee on golden lupine, Lupinus densiflorus |
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| A bee on Bolander's sunflower, Helianthus bolanderi |
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| A bee on tomcat clover, Trifolium willdenovii |
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| Two bees hanging out on cliff aster, Malacothrix saxatilis |
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| A bee on California aster, Symphyotrichum chilense (Aster chilensis) |
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| A hummingbird on evening primorse, Oenothera elata ssp. hirsutissima |
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| A hummingbird enjoying California fuchsia, Epilobium canum |
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| A monarch butterfly on narrow leaf milkweed, Asclepias fascicularis |
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| A Duskywing butterfly on Bolander's sunflower, Helianthus bolanderi |
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| A bee (maybe a wasp, not sure) honing in on an evening primrose, Oenothera elata ssp. hirsutissima bloom |
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| An Anna's hummingbird (Calypte anna) in it's nest |
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| A butterfly on Agastache urticifolia, horse mint |
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| A pollinator on caterpillar phacelia, Phacelia cicutaria |
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| A wasp on narrow leaf milkweed, Asclepias fascicularis |
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| A bumblebee on deergrass, Muhlenbergia rigens |
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| A monarch and two bees on showy milkweed, Asclepias speciosa |
**This was edited on July 2nd to correct for the miss identification of butterflies as moths as pointed out by a reader. Please let us know if you see anything else, we know the plants but are learning our pollinators!
