Backyard Orchard News
The Perfect Gift
So you're thinking about a holiday gift for someone who has everything. You've racked your brain...
Shaun Winterton of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, an associate of the Bohart Museum, collected this stiletto fly, genus Agapophytus, and photographed it. It now needs a name. (Shaun Winterton Photo)
This weevil, found in a Costa Rica forest, is up for adoption: it needs a name. (Photo by Andrew Richards, Bohart Museum of Entomology)
Here's another weevil, found in a Costa Rica forest, that needs a name. (Photo by Andrew Richards, Bohart Museum of Entomology)
Bohart senior museum scientist Steve Heydon collected this new species of chalcid wasp in the Algonedes Dunes. Genus: Psilochalcis. It needs a name. (Photo by Andrew Richards, Bohart Museum of Entomology)
Monitoring the Monarchs
Like the migratory animals that he studies, Hugh Dingle, emeritus professor of entomology at the...
A monarch and a honey bee sharing a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
It's Crunch Time: Almond Conference Dec. 9-11
It's crunch time. Officials organizing the 42nd annual Almond Conference are gearing up for their...
Honey bee pollinating an almond blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
An almond orchard in spring of 2013 in Dixon. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Diane Ullman: An Honor Well Deserved
An honor well deserved. Diane Ullman, professor of entomology at the University of California,...
Diane Ullman looking over students' work. The colorful bee boxes were then moved over to the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven on Bee Biology Road, UC Davis. The UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology operates the garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Diane Ullman talks about the art projects in the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, UC Davis, that she and colleague Donna Billick launched. Ullman and Billick co-founded the UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Program. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Mayflies, Fish and the Fusion of Art and Science
This week while searching through backyard photos, I came across a mayfly I photographed on...
Retired marine fisheries specialist Chris DeWees fuses art with science.