Backyard Orchard News
LIndcove REC Fruit Display and Tasting!
Come one come all to the Lindcove Fruit Display and Tasting - more than 100 varieties of fruit...
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Confessions of a Backyard Beekeeper
Confessions of a Backyard Beekeeper. That's the title of a piece...
Beekeeper Ann M. Evans admires her first swarm (2013). "The first time my bees swarmed, they formed a heart in a tree in my yard," she said. "We caught them, my first swarm catch, and put them in a new hive." (Photo by Joyce Hardi)
UC Davis Researchers: Woolly Bear Caterpillars Pick Winner of U.S. Presidential Campaign
Score another win for those woolly bear caterpillars. For the past three decades, woolly bear...
UC Davis researchers Rick Karban (left) and his graduate student Eric LoPresti with their chart linking woolly bear caterpillars to U.S. Presidential elections. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of U.S. Presidential election predictions (red designates Republicans and blue, Democrats).
A woolly bear caterpillar on Bodega Head in 2011. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Woolly bear caterpillars eating lupine in 2008 on Bodega Head, Sonoma County. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Landmark Book Addresses California Bees, Blooms
If you're looking for a holiday gift for family and friends--or maybe yourself--think bees and...
This is a native bumble bee, Bombus californicus, on blanketflower (Gaillardia). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Often mistakenly "identified" as a "golden bumble bee," this is the male Valley carpenter bee, Xylocopa varipuncta, on flowering milkweed. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
What Are Those Red and Black Bugs on Milkweed?
Got milkweed? Then you probably have milkweed bugs. All summer and into fall, we spotted the...
Yule ornaments? No, just milkweed bugs about to reproduce. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of the Small Milkweed Bug, Lygaeus kalmii. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Seed pod of the showy milkweed, Asclepias speciosa. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A milkweed bug and a buffet of seeds from the showy milkweed, Asclepias speciosa. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)