Backyard Orchard News
Pollinator Pavilion: A Prized Exhibit at UC Davis Picnic Day
Pollinator Pavilion. Picnic Day. They go together like honey bees on bee balm and bumble bees on...
Monarch butterfly nectaring on plants inside the 2015 Pollination Pavilion enclosure. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Crowds peered through the 2015 Pollinator Pavilion enclosure and then entered excitedly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
How to Bee All You Can Bee
A bee is a bee is a bee. A fly is a fly is a fly. Thank you, Gertrude Stein. If you've ever wanted...
A drone fly on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee on a tangerine blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A drone fly on a gum plant blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee nectaring lavender. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Lindcove REC Now Hosts Walnut Research
Lindcove Research and Extension Center (LREC) continues to diversify it's crop portfolio with the...
Don Cleek, LREC Ag Supervisor, augering tree holes in advance of planting.
Trees were planted in field capacity soil on April 11, 2016.
Malaria Observation Day at UC Davis on April 25
With all the news media coverage lately on the Zika virus, the more pressing disease of malaria may...
UC Davis medical entomologist Anthony Cornel with a villager in Mali.
UC Davis World Malaria Day will take place Monday, April 25 in the Memorial Union. At the top left is UC Davis medical entomologist Anthony Cornel.
Let's Have a Picnic!
What's a picnic without bugs? Bugs may be uninvited guests at your family picnic, but at the...
Briggs Hall is a popular place at the campuswide UC Davis Picnic Day. This year's Picnic Day is Saturday, April 16. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Professor Sharon Lawler of the Department of Entomology and Nematology, greets guests at the aquatic display in Briggs Hall. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Smile! A picnicker points her cell phone at a rose-haired tarantula at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This is maggot art. Dip a maggot in water-soluble paint, let it crawl around or guide it on a white piece of paper, and voila! Maggot art. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)