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Cabrillo National Monument

Bee and Plant Explorer 🌼

by Brandi Sanchez

Every flower a bee has been recorded on at the park, readable from either end. By bee lists the plants it was found on. By plant lists the bees recorded visiting it, which is the direction that matters for planting and restoration.

These are records, not preferences. A row means somebody photographed or netted that bee on that plant, not that the bee depends on it or favors it. Effort was never even across plants, so a roadside shrub many people walk past collects more records than an uncommon plant that matters just as much to the bee. Check the record count on every row: most are thin, and the typical bee here has records on only two plant genera.

In the list, 🌼 5 means that bee was recorded on 5 plant genera; under By plant, 🐝 5 means 5 bee species were recorded on that plant. In the table, the number is how many records sit behind that one pairing.

What is on this page. Every bee recorded on an identified flower, parkwide, all years and months, pooling netted specimens and every iNaturalist photo. That is 78 bee species and 70 plant genera, forming 499 pairs, 195 of them resting on a single record. Plants are grouped at genus level. Bees identified only to genus are left out, because a flower list is only meaningful for a species. Source: iNaturalist photos and netted specimens, Cabrillo National Monument (data as of 2026-09-14).