Posts Tagged: National Pollinator Week
It's National Pollinator Week!
It's National Pollinator Week! Do you know where your pollinators are? It was good to see the...
Norm Gary, emeritus professor of entomology at UC Davis who recently retired as a professional bee wrangler, talks bees with Barbara Allen-Diaz, UC ANR vice president. The bee sculpture, in the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven on Bee Biology Road, UC Davis, is the work of Donna Billick. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
That's one pollinator! Barbara Allen-Diaz, vice president of UC ANR, holds up a finger designating one pollinator. This is Donna Billick's bee sculpture in the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. It was funded by Wells Fargo. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Not Your Usual Pollinator
Since this is National Pollinator Week, you're probably out celebrating the bees--maybe doing hand...
Melyrid beetle (Endeodes insularis) on a poppy petal. (Photo y Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of melyrid beetle covered with pollen. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Have You Hugged Your Pollinator Today?
Have you hugged your favorite pollinator today? It's National Pollinator Week, and you're allowed...
Female wool carder bee (Anthidium manicatum) heads for lupine at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) sips nectar from a marguerite daisy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Metallic green sweat bee (Agapostemon texanus) foraging on a coneflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Yellow-faced bumble bee (Bombus vosnesenskii) nectaring a coneflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Preserving and Protecting Our Pollinators
You'll be hearing more about the CP2C. What's that? The first-ever Congressional Pollinator...
Bee Squad
Bee in Pomegranate Blossoms
Close-Up
They're Pollinators, Too
When we think of pollinators, we usually think of honey bees, bumble bees, carpenter bees, syrphid...
Blow Fly on Lavender
Blow Fly