Blooms, Bees, Butterflies

Blooming barrel cacti

honey bees

metallic green sweat bees

red ants

Wildflowers growing on the side of the road

desert senna with sweat bee

Butterflies

chrysalises on sweet acacia tree

giant swallowtail flying over citrus tree

giant swallowtail resting on oleander leaf during a rainstorm

The next five photos (shot through a chain link fence) are of a pipevine swallowtail butterfly on a blooming desert willow tree.

And here's a swallowtail camouflaged on a red bird of paradise flower:

The pictures above are from August and I took the one below in September.

pipevine swallowtail on creosote

Have a good day!