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. Earlier this year, Phoenix-based photographer Joe Neely set out with his wife, Niccole, to snap some Mexican poppy wildflowers, but found the fields empty. What they saw instead—which blew their minds—was none other than a group of sleeping globe mallow flower bees, eyes sparkling like blue sapphires, within the bright orange blossoms in the desert twilight. “Niccole was looking for the perfect flower and noticed some bees inside one of the orange globe mallow blooms,” Neely told The Epoch Times. “I hurried over and observed them for several …