The bright, orange globe mallow flower, which flourishes in the desert, has been likened to a refreshing grenadine summer drink.
That vivid flower blossom has a friend in the blue-eyed globe mallow flower bee (Diadasia diminuta). It loves gorging on pollen by day and, strangely, curling up inside those same blossoms—in a nectar-induced stupor, covered from head to toe in yellow pollen—by night.
