Daily Postcard: A variety of bees are busy Sunday collecting pollen and nectar from cherry blossoms blooming at a residence in White Rock. In the United States, there are more than 4,000 species of native bees. Familiar bees visiting garden flowers are the colorful, fuzzy, yellow-and-black striped bumblebees, metallic-green sweat bees, squash bees and imported honeybee. These flower-seeking pollen magnets purposefully visit flowers to collect pollen and nectar for food for themselves and their young. Source: U.S. Forest service. Photo by Nancy Ann Hibbs

Bees collect pollen and nectar Sunday from cherry blossoms in White Rock. Photo by Nancy Ann Hibbs

Bees collect pollen and nectar from cherry blossoms Sunday in White Rock. Photo by Nancy Ann Hibbs