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Host Plant for Endangered Lange's Metalmark Butterfly...seen here.

Found in domestic garden

Nectaring on California Goldfields.

Observed as part of Friends of the Ballona Wetlands' Celebration of the Blues event.

Same individual: http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2716894 or http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2716893

First one of the season. Had 7 by the end of the day.

On achillea millefolium

On Salvia ‘Pozo Blue’ in native garden; larvae are known to feed on species in the Lamiaceae family, which this is

Sighted during butter behavioral study conducted by US Fish&Wildlife staff at Antioch Dunes NWR

Video here: https://youtu.be/geaso0r6sTo

Seen on the EBRPD's annual Return of the Terns trip to the Alameda Wildlife Reserve

A pair of Calliopsis zonalis mating on their host plant, Monardella lanceolata.

Male

On California buttercup

5 in one flower

Photo credit: Paul G. Johnson/NPS.

On Cobwebby Thistle

Kind enough to crawl on my finger to aid in identification.

LA RIver Whitsett
Seemed to be quite a few of these

Day sleeper. It took several flashes to wake this bee.
Wooded Hill Nature Trail

Bee inside Beavertail Cactus flower along Rim Trail.

I’ve never seen this bee before. Quite uncertain!

On Grindelia camporum

On Yellow Mariposa Lily

Photo credit: NPS/Paul G. Johnson

On Camissoniopsis cheiranthifolia

on Loma Prieta Hoita

Found on its specialist flower, Lasthenia fremontii AKA vernal pool goldfields (note yellow pollen), but not photographed on them.

Mitchell Rock Trail, Mount Diablo State Park

Female on Encelia californica

With butterfly eggs?

Common, but often overlooked. Native plantain, and host to certain butterfly species in some areas. I observed many in this area last year.

On purple Chinese houses (Collinsia heterophylla)