A native bee on Pennyroyal... fascinating the way these gals (it's always the
females who do the work in the bee world) collect pollen. Each species has its own
strategy for collecting, packing and carrying the stuff back to the little ones.
Little is known about the lives of native bees, which are mostly hidden from us.

Family Colletidae - Plasterer Bees, Masked or Yellow-faced Bees, and Cellophane Bees.

Genus Colletes - Cellophane bees (don't know if this one is identifiable without specimen
in hand); recognized North American species of Colletes include:

Colletes aberrans
Colletes compactus
Colletes hyalinus
Colletes inaequalis
Colletes latitarsis
Colletes simulans
Colletes slevini
Colletes thoracicus