What I relish most about my pollinator garden is the three-ring circus of clowns, acrobats, contortionists and other performers. While nurturing a garden habitat that gives native bees a place in which to live, eat and raise their young, we also get to watch the wacky show. With over 1,600 species of native bees in California alone, here is a tiny sampling of bee species and their most

delightful and downright silly “bee-haviors.”