The Natural History of Bodega Head

    Lots of wind on Bodega Head today (22 October 2022), but I caught up with a Tropical Kingbird ( Tyrannus melancholicus ) in the lee of s...

Earlier in March, I was watching some insects visit the flowers of Footsteps-of-spring ( Sanicula arctopoides ).  Check out this fly.  Hard ...

  Thanks to Peter, I'm excited to share a velvet ant ( Dasymutilla sp.) photo with you.  We were walking in the Bodega Dunes last ...

A few visitors to the Seaside Wild Buckwheat flowers ( Eriogonum latifolium ) in the Bodega Dunes on 26 August 2017:   Male Acmon Blu...

I went out this morning to try to photograph wasps, but I was having a hard time.  Then I noticed these wonderful bees:   The bees ...

  Here's one I need help with.  I think this is a wasp, and my best guess after looking around a bit is that it's a type of...

    Sand Wasp (Bembix sp. )   A few photos of a striking wasp from the Bodega Dunes.  [This may be Bembix americana comata , but I do...