Backyard Orchard News
A Honey of a Festival, and an Inaugural Festival at That!
It was indeed a honey of a festival. When the inaugural California Honey Festival buzzed into...
Apis Inlusio, a sculpture art car designed to look like a bee, drew thousands of onlookers. Part of the 2013 Burning Man Festival, it is based in San Francisco.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The honey flavor wheel proved to be a honey of an exhibit. That's Amina Harris (in red), coordinator of the California Honey Festival and director of the UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Owners of Z Specialty Food, Woodland, were as busy as well...bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Some 20,000 attended the inaugural California Honey Festival. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
To bee or not to bee! That was the question. Here's the answer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The California Honey Festival even had a bee truck, with hives loaned by area beekeeper John Foster. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
California Honey Festival coordinator Amina Harris, director of the UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center, stands by a display of bee photos by Kathy Keatley Garvey of UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.
This honey bee buzzed the California Honey Festival. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Like a Ballerina on the Dance Floor of Life
Like a ballerina on the dance floor of life, a newly eclosed Western tiger swallowtail, Papilio...
A Western tiger swallowtail, Papilio rutulus,warms its flight muscles on a crape myrtle tree. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Western tiger swallowtail folds its wings. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
An insect, probably a bee, flies near the Western tiger swallowtail. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Kate Frey: Gardening for Bees, Beauty and Diversity
Many mothers will receive a stunning bouquet of flowers on Sunday, Mother's Day. Others will learn...
The Frey Gardens at the home of Ben and Kate Frey in Hopland, are inviting.
Kate Frey designed the gardens at the Lynmar Estate Winery, located in Sonoma County's Russian River Valley. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Citrus Tristeza Virus testing complete at Lindcove REC
Annual testing of more than 11,000 citrus trees for citrus tristeza virus (CTV) was completed last...
California State University plant pathology students enjoy hands-on learning of disease detection technology for Citrus Tristeza Virus at the Bakersfield campus. Photo by Isolde Francis.
Why Excitement Surged at the UC Davis Academic Surge Building
Excitement surged at the UC Davis Academic Surge Building on Crocker Lane during the recent "Take...
Joshua Trombly, 4, eagerly asks for insect identification at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. In back is his brother Daniel, 5. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Checking out the insect specimens at the Bohart Museum of Entomology are David and Sarah Trombly and their three sons (from left) Joshua, 4, Daniel, 5, and Joseph, 11 months. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Lynn Kimsey (right), director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, shows insect specimens to Amiyah Robinson, 8, and her mother, Chelsy Robinson, who works for Human Resources. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart associate Wade Spencer, a UC Davis student majoring in entomology, shows jewel beetles to Amiyah Robinson, 8, and her mother, Chelsy Robinson. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Donnelly "Papaya" West of Papaya Pythons, Davis, shows her snakes to Amiyah Robinson, 8, (center) and other excited youngsters and adults at "Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work" Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A rainbow boa inches closer to Amiyah Robinson, 8, while William Parsons, 6, watches. The Papaya Pythons owner explained "He thinks you're a tree." Amiyah's mother, Chelsy, works for Human Resources, and William's father, Justin Parsons, with the Chancellor's and Provost Office. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)