Random and miscellaneous pollinator photos

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Sun Apr 18, 2021 4:18 pm

That's it! A male Strand's Carpenter bee. Found only in Texas.
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Tue Apr 27, 2021 10:19 am

Can anyone identify this salvia? I bought it yesterday at a local nursery. They had several pots and all were mislabeled, so nobody knows what this is. Vivid pink and pale peach bicolor.
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Tue Apr 27, 2021 4:01 pm

It looks like a x jamensis hybrid but which one is hard to say.
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Thu Apr 29, 2021 7:32 am

Yes it is an x jamesis. It is 'Shell Dancer'. It's one that I really like and plant most years but not this one. I have to order new plants every year due to my climate and this one was sold out by the end of January. :cry:
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Thu Apr 29, 2021 7:51 pm

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Carpenter Bee. These are the main pollinators at the moment. The honey bees are off someplace else.
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Sat May 08, 2021 12:55 pm

Blue Fortune anise hyssop is a pollinator favorite.



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Sun May 09, 2021 8:56 am

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The Italians are here! Italian honey Bees, that is. Put them in their new home yesterday. They are already coming back with pollen. Main bloom here at the house now is Southern Magnolia, Ligustrum and Clover when it isn’t getting mowed down. These bees seem to ignoring the garden for now, although they are 30 feet away.
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Sun May 09, 2021 10:36 am

Watch out ladies :-)
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Sat Jun 05, 2021 9:35 am

Oh lookie,

It's a Hebe "He Bee"
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Mon Jun 07, 2021 11:02 am

The original essential workers were out in force today.

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Mon Jun 07, 2021 12:03 pm

You have all their favorites!
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Sat Jun 12, 2021 1:02 pm

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Mon Jun 21, 2021 1:05 pm

Resting on a peony.
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Kale flowers brought in a variety of pollinators.
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On a type of geranium.
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Fri Jun 25, 2021 8:31 pm

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Visiting a grow bag of Summer Jewel Red salvia.
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Sat Jun 26, 2021 1:15 pm

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Bee in the bottle brush
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Sun Jun 27, 2021 9:19 pm

On Grevillea this spring.

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Wed Jul 07, 2021 11:47 am

Thistle do nicely....
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Wed Jul 07, 2021 1:21 pm

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Golden Coreopsis, with what I think is some kind of Miner Bee? I've never seen a Bumble Bee with this coloring in my area.
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Wed Jul 14, 2021 3:29 pm

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I never get any bees on the grow bag of periwinkles, but it did attract a butterfly.

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A nectar robber on a Vermillionaire cuphea blossom.


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Bee on Summer Jewel Pink salvia.




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A small moth? on Mystic Spires Blue salvia.
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Wed Jul 14, 2021 4:06 pm

[mention]SpookyShoe[/mention] I have seldom if ever seen any bees on periwinkle which is why I do not grow it anymore.
Your small moth is a butterfly. You can tell the difference because a moth will have feathered antennae while a butterflies antennae are straight with a bulbous end.
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