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Wildflower Mount Diablo Chaparral Harebell Scientific Name: Ravenella exigua Family: Campanulaceae (Bell flower Family) Blooms: May - Jun Color: Blue-Purple Annual herb Native, endemic to California This plants is rare in Mount Diblo State Park. See full list Jump to Blooming Now Blue / Purple Red / Pink White Yellow / Orange Invasive Plants Mike Woodring

Wildflower Mount Diablo Woolly Sunflower, Common Woolly Sunflower Scientific Name: Eriophyllum lanatum Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower Family) Blooms: Mar - Jun Color: Yellow-Orange Perennial herb Native This plant is rare in Mount Diablo State Park. See full list Jump to Blooming Now Blue / Purple Red / Pink White Yellow / Orange Invasive Plants Kevin Hintsa

Mountain Mahogany Hairstreak Satyrium tetra Lycaenidae Blues, Coppers, Hairstreaks Flies May to July Host Plant Mountain Mahogany Nectar Plant Horehound Daniel Fitzgerald Underwing Ken-ichi Ueda Underwing

Yellow-rumped Warbler Warblers Yellow-rumped Warbler Setophaga coronata Winter Warblers Daniel Fitzgerald Daniel Fitzgerald Can be found at almost any wooded habitat, and low brushy areas, and in weedy fields. There are two subspecies – Audubon’s (S. c. auduboni) and Myrtle (S. c. coronata) which hybridize. Key features are white wing bars, yellow rump and yellow at sides of breast. The throat color of Audubon’s is yellow and Myrtle is white. Females are duller. The ‘chip’ call note can be heard throughout the winter and is required learning for all serious birders; once learned it becomes easy to locate other warblers simply by listening for a different sounding call note. Mostly eats insects, but also fruit or nectar.

Wildflower Mount Diablo Golden Aster, Sessileflower False Goldenaster Scientific Name: Heterotheca sessiliflora ssp. echioides Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower Family) Blooms: Mar - Oct Color: Yellow-Orange Perennial herb Native Jump to Blooming Now Blue / Purple Red / Pink White Yellow / Orange Invasive Plants Ken-ichi Ueda, iNaturalist

Wildflower Mount Diablo Mule Fat Scientific Name: Baccharis salicifolia Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower Family) Blooms: All year Color: White Shrub Native Jump to Blooming Now Blue / Purple Red / Pink White Yellow / Orange Invasive Plants Ken-ichi Ueda, iNaturalist

White-tailed Kite Diurnal Birds of Prey White-tailed Kite Elanus leucurus All Year Diurnal Birds of Prey Daniel Fitzgerald Daniel Fitzgerald The long whitish tail and black shoulders make the adult unmistakable. It has long pointed wings and soars and glides. Immatures are similar to adults with buffy breasts.

Wildflower Mount Diablo Broadleaf Filaree, Grape Storksbill, Long-beaked Filaree Scientific Name: Erodium botrys Family: Geraniaceae (Geranium Family) Blooms: Mar Color: Red-Pink Annual herb Introduced Jump to Blooming Now Blue / Purple Red / Pink White Yellow / Orange Invasive Plants Hema Shah

Apidae Filter by Genus Select Genus California Digger Bee Anthophora californicus Read More Edwards' Digger Bee Anthophora edwardsii Earlier Spring (starting late-February/early March) Read More Urbane Digger Bee Anthophora urbana Read More Black-tailed Bumble Bee Bombus melanopygus Read More California Bumble Bee Bombus californicus Read More Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii Read More Lovely-tailed Mourning Bee Melecta separata callura March - May Read More

Lovely-tailed Mourning Bee Melecta separata callura Apidae Melecta Description Melecta separata callura is a medium-to-large (~15 mm), beautiful cuckoo bee: it parasitizes the nest of Anthophora (Digger) bees by laying an egg in the completed, provisioned nest. Forewings have 3 submarginal cells. The abdomen is black, with white patching, and legs are white-patched. Females lack scopae (they don't provision nests). Nectar/ Pollen Plants Nectar generalists, without care for pollen. Habits Cleptoparasitic, these bees sneak into completed Anthophora nests (by digging down through the sealed burrows) and lay an egg on the nest cell cap. Its larva hatches, drains the Anthophora egg using its sickle like mandibles, and then eats the nest provisions. The larva pupates in the cell and emerges in Spring. Season March - May Size Medium (8-15 mm)

Lovely-tailed Mourning Bee Melecta separata callura Apidae Melecta Description Melecta separata callura is a medium-to-large (~15 mm), beautiful cuckoo bee: it parasitizes the nest of Anthophora (Digger) bees by laying an egg in the completed, provisioned nest. Forewings have 3 submarginal cells. The abdomen is black, with white patching, and legs are white-patched. Females lack scopae (they don't provision nests). Nectar/ Pollen Plants Nectar generalists, without care for pollen. Habits Cleptoparasitic, these bees sneak into completed Anthophora nests (by digging down through the sealed burrows) and lay an egg on the nest cell cap. Its larva hatches, drains the Anthophora egg using its sickle like mandibles, and then eats the nest provisions. The larva pupates in the cell and emerges in Spring. Season March - May Size Medium (8-15 mm)

Lovely-tailed Mourning Bee Melecta separata callura Apidae Melecta Description Melecta separata callura is a medium-to-large (~15 mm), beautiful cuckoo bee: it parasitizes the nest of Anthophora (Digger) bees by laying an egg in the completed, provisioned nest. Forewings have 3 submarginal cells. The abdomen is black, with white patching, and legs are white-patched. Females lack scopae (they don't provision nests). Nectar/ Pollen Plants Nectar generalists, without care for pollen. Habits Cleptoparasitic, these bees sneak into completed Anthophora nests (by digging down through the sealed burrows) and lay an egg on the nest cell cap. Its larva hatches, drains the Anthophora egg using its sickle like mandibles, and then eats the nest provisions. The larva pupates in the cell and emerges in Spring. Season March - May Size Medium (8-15 mm)