As the weather warms they awaken from their winter sleep frisky and active. Look for ladybugs clustered together on the stems of grasses and at the bases of tree trunks. One ladybug hot spot is Steven's Creek in the Monte Bello Open Space Preserve. There is nothing quite as still and quiet as the desert in winter. In March the clustering white blossoms of the Joshua tree are entirely dependent on the yucca moth for pollination.
Moths visit a flower, gathering the pollen into balls.
During pollen transfer to a neighboring flower, the moths deposit their eggs. The seeds of maturing fruit will be a food source for developing larvae. Spring is slowly crawling out of its shell along California's coast. Early blooming wildflowers make their first appearance on the north-facing slopes, scrub, and grasslands of the Marin Headlands. On Wolf Ridge Trail, look for western hound's tongue , coast rock cress , shooting stars , and milk maids .