Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Anyone on this Forum Into Bees, 1 by fauna4flora

fauna4flora wrote:
Awesome pictures, you guys. Mellie, I have some porterweed coming along, and can't wait. Sunny- that is a beautiful lotus. Such a bonus the bees love it! Will check those links out. Not much action in the B + B garden today, although I saw a totally new (moth?!?!?!) in my "nursery production area." It was smallish, had dusty brown to black wings and had a hairy turquoise abdomen. Also happened to snap this just going after flower shots in the front yard (south of the pond area.) I think it is a fly mimicing a bee. I have read about this. I observed that it was drinking nectar with a "stylus." Also, there are no pollen baskets, yet pollen is all over this guy's abdomen and legs helter skelter.