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Found on Encelia californica

Small wasp, about 6 mm long, clinging to a blade of grass with its jaws on a cool, overcast misty morning, too cold to fly.

Corbin Canyon
I think--there was lots of activity at this nest

Big Rock Wash Wildlife Sanctuary
Mating pair

Native bee on Bursaria spinosa flowers.

Griffith Park
On white sage
These bees are so cool

Joshua Tree
On Acton brittlebush

Nesting in a banksia nut cone that my son wood-turned into a candle stick.

chasing off a Children's Python
(Antaresia childreni)

concentration nectar by evaporation

Red bottomed, bobble headed bee - Pachyprosopis?

This is the huge nesting aggregation found by @bonnienickel

LA River Whitsett
Very tiny on sacred datura

Lasioglossum platychilum

Pam Osborn image

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
I think this might be the same species that was seen in this park before. It was busy excavating a hole underneath this rock but never gave me great views

Ctenocolletes smaragdinus , male.

Kelso Dunes, San Bernardino County, California

Video: https://youtu.be/1QBbkYnDNvc

Species from California and Nevada

Common name: Mountain Heather

Photographed along Saddlebag Lake, Inyo National Forest, Mono County, California

Found several nest burrows with several bees in constant motion above them. Saw a few land and enter. Anthophora?