Theodore Payne Foundation garden, Sun Valley, Los Angeles County, California, USA
March 27, 2013
Saw females like this a couple of times in sunflowers (
Encelia), but didn't get any photos. Here I observed the bee cutting a piece of leaf from a mallow (
Malacothamnus).
A male found later may be of the same species, whatever this turns out to be:
Contributed by
Hartmut Wisch on 28 March, 2013 - 12:27am
Last updated 15 February, 2014 - 4:14am