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Note straight tibial spur

Female. Cleptoparasite of Svastra obliqua which was found at this location at the same time.

Nomia melanderi on thistle

The circled pictures are as clear I can get, it seems like there might be a strepsiperan attached to it?

On diffuse knapweed in the first photos, then under the plant.

Cell service was poor in this area, so the location is approximate.

sorry, Linc, but the dry cycle maimed it.

Saw a couple individuals visiting this mock orange this morning.

Was ignored by the ambush bug in the 2nd photo.

CV thinks she is a Habropoda, but I think there is an Anthophora with orange scopae…
Why aren’t ranges included on suggestions? Amegilla? In the PNW?

feeding on arugula flowers

caliginosus Bombus f 43.974, -123.114

Many males and females around. She was leaving her nest.

Totally covered in mites.

was taken down by another bee and stunned for a bit

Saw only two Bombus. This one seems to be nectaring, as her corbicula are full of orange pollen. The only flowers with orange pollen on this bank were mullein.

On cultivated Cotoneaster near ocean shoreline

There are dozens of these in my garden.

On cultivated spirea.

Visiting what I think is cultivated spirea.

Visiting cultivated spirea

Female gathering plant fibers. Video at: https://youtu.be/wpMiFwsufeA

Melecta on Ribes aureum

foraging on Hoary Aster