It's amazing what a little Photoshopping can do to a bee on blue.
We captured an image this week of a pollen-packing honey bee on Phacelia campanularia, also known as California blue bells or desert blue bells.
It's a deep inky-blue wildflower that's native to southwestern deserts of California. It's planted in a wildflower patch behind the Sciences Laboratory Building on the UC Davis campus. There it mingles with the white-petalled yellow tidy tips and other wildflowers.
We ran the image through "poster edges" of Photoshop and voila! It's even more inky blue.
Maybe that's what the bee sees.
Bug Squad