Corralitas Drive: Chive Flowers Attract Tiny Native Bees

Photo: Diane Edwardson, September 2, 2015.  According to UC Berkeley's Urban Bee Lab, there are around 1600 native bee species in California.  I'm not even going to attempt to ID the 1/4" long bee I watched drink from the chive flowers.  (Click on photos to enlarge.)


Photo: Diane Edwardson, September 2, 2015.  We always see a variety of bees and blue butterflies on and in the chives.  The UC