Carol Gomes Nature Photography

BEES are highly recognized pollinators. Some FLIES are beneficial pollinators as well, like this FLOWER FLY sitting on top of a small lily pad.

MARDON SKIPPER

butterflies are a small, tawny-orange butterfly dependent upon native, fescue-dominated grasslands in Oregon, Washington and northwest California.

(seen here on a blue pickerel bloom below an exotic butterfly).