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A lasioglossum sweat bee with abundant white hair sips nectar from a mint flower.

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Washington Native Bee Society

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Seattle, WA 98145

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A mining bee sips nectar from a rubber rabbitbrush flower cluster

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Washington State has roughly 2,600 native plants. We owe this diversity to a striking array of habitat types. From temperate rainforest to shrub-steppe desert and everything in betweeen, the floral diversity harbors an extraordinary diversity of native bees, 600 and still counting. 

A sagebrush mariposa lily  amidst a wide desert mountain landscape. The flower is in color, the background is grayscale.

Bee habitat: Sagebrush mariposa lily in the eastern Cascade foothills

The month of June in eastern washington brings the extraordinarily beautiful blooms of sagebrush mariposa lily, Calochortus macrocarpus. A member of the lily family, it is a beacon for native bees of many kinds. 

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