bees and then bees

Japanese snowbell attracts what look like genuine honeybees. I hadn't seen very many of them at all in Seattle.

The black-backed bumblebees don't touch the snowbell. They lurrve the ceanothus alongside.

I'd thought that rosemary had figured out how not to get eaten by insects, but this one was covered with a hundred spittlebug nests.

Oh, I missed a stage on the racetrack -- it's CRAB BEAR BUNY RUN.