Backyard Orchard News
UC Davis Experts to Speak at 'Basics of Beekeeping' Conference
Want to learn the basics of beekeeping from a team of experts, including scientists from the...
Extension apiculturist Elina Niño of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, is shown here working with beekeeping course students. She will be a speaker at the "Basics of Beekeeping" conference. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Everything's Coming Up Bees at UC Davis!
Everything's coming up bees! A number of eminent bee scientists will be speaking soon at UC Davis....
Extension apiculturist and professor David Tarpy of North Carolina State University will present a seminar on "Young Regality: a Day in the Life of a Virgin Queen Bee" from 12:10 to 1 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 3 in 122 Briggs Hall, Kleiber Hall Drive, UC Davis. (North Carolina University Photo)
Flowering Jade Draws Some Pollinators
It's not spring yet, but don't tell that to the pollinators at the Benicia Capitol State Historic...
European syrphid fly forages on jade at the Benicia Capitol State Historic Park. This is a Eristalinus aenus.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee foraging on jade at the Benicia Capitol State Historic Park. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
LREC Plant Pathology Lab Receives and Passes CDFA Compliance Inspection
Over the past year and a half, UCCE Tulare County Farm Advisor Elizabeth Fichtner and...
Sabrine Dhaouadi (left), visiting scientist, and Elizabeth Fichtner, UCCE Tulare farm advisor (right) introduce Stephanie Theodore (center) to the new pathology facility at LREC.
Mead and Music: Beginning of a UC Davis Feast
It's getting to look a lot like...February. When you see honey bees foraging on the early blooming...
From the honey comes the fermented beverage, mead. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)