In the strawberries

  

I was checking on some wild strawberry flowers in the dunes recently (28 February 2022) and noticed this little bee (Sphecodes sp.?) emerging from one of them.

From this view you can see the red-colored abdomen:

 

 

Spending the afternoon in strawberry flowers...not such a bad idea!

At home in the sand

 

Beach Strawberry (Fragaria chiloensis)

 

Dark-eyed Gilia (Gilia millefoliata)

Both photographed in the Bodega Dunes, 5 April 2017