Pink and purple

This past month, everywhere I've  gone, I've found flowers. I take their photos, of course, but then they get set aside while I look at other things. And now I've got a whole folder full of them.

So: flowers. Pink and purple today.

Nootka rose, Rosa nutkana.

This rose is named for the Nootka tribe, more properly called the Nuu-chah-nulth, who lived on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Only about 300 speakers of the language remain today. But the roses are everywhere.

My neighbours' camelia.

And another.

French lavendar, Lavandula stoechas

Purple columbine, Aquilegia vulgaris. This is an introduced species; the local one is red or orange.

A tiny bluebell found beside a gravel pit. With fly and buttercup. Common harebell?

Does a poppy count as purple? Definitely not pink! With a foraging bee.

Unless you look under the 16-legged critter on the seed factory.

Tomorrow, the yellows.

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 Este mes recién pasado, en dondequiera que haya ido, me he encontrado con flores. Les saco fotos, claro está, pero luego me ocupo de otras cosas, y las flores se quedan en el archivo. Y ya el archivo está repleto.

Así que, aquí subo unas flores. Por hoy, color de rosa, color lila y morado.

1. La rosa nativa de estas costa, Rosa nutkana, llamado así por la tribu de los Nutka, o como se nombran ahora, los Nuu-chah-nulth, quienes viven el la costa del oeste de esta, la isla Vancouver. En estos dias solo quedan unos 300 personas que hablen su idioma. Pero las rosas están en todas partes.
2. Una camelia en el jardín de mi vecina.
3. Otra del mismo arbusto.
4. Flores de lavanda francesa, Lavandula stoechas.
5. Aquilegia vulgaris. Es una especie introducida; las nativas vienen en colores de rosa y anaranjado.
6. Una campanita miniatura que crece a solas al lado de una gravera. Puede ser, tal vez, la Campanula rotundifolia. Con su mosca y un ranúnculo.
7. Las amapolas cuentan como flor morada ¿no? Ya sé que no son color de rosa. Este trae una abeja buscando polen.
8. Pero sí, hay algo color de rosa. Abajo de esa criatura con 16 patas en el centro.

And those beetles ...

I think they're weevils.

These were all over most of the roses on the bush, just skipping the ones where the bees were busy.

Zooming in on a couple. Those aren't weevil stripes: they're flower shadows. I think.

The beetles are tiny, and hard to see clearly, but the longish faces and the antennae;  perched on the tip of the nose, and with a definite angle halfway up, say weevil to me. I've sent a few photos in to BugGuide for a closer ID.

Bee, beetle, rose

The Nootka roses are blooming. And the beetles and bees are busy.

Almost hairless bee, with her legs covered in pollen. And a tiny beetle, up there on the tip of the top left petal.

Another rose, another bee, with bigger saddlebags.

Here she is, zoomed in.

Years ago, I posted a sort of comparison of the different bees and bee mimics I'd seen on the Lower Mainland. I went back to it today for help in identifying these bees. It was a good reminder of the things to look for, but not much help with this set. At least they're not bee mimics, syrphid flies and the like; they have long, jointed antennae, round abdomens, and those saddlebags. And they're female: only the females carry the saddlebags, to bring home the groceries in.

I like the way they're so glossy that they reflect the pink of the rose petals.

More of those tiny beetles coming tomorrow: I took at least 30 photos, hoping for one in which most of them behaved, so I've got some sorting to do.