Backyard Orchard News
Soil Moisture Sensors Installed in Mandarin Research Plots
This week at Lindcove REC the John Deere Company installed two John Deere Field Connect™ soil...
Craig Hornung installs a soil moisture sensor.
Screenshot of data from soil moisture sensor.
Have a Few Crickets With Your Kölsch
These things go together: Ham and eggs, macaroni and cheese, and beer and bugs. Beer and bugs?...
Would you eat honey bee larvae? (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Wax moth larvae: good source of protein? And throw in a few small hive beetles for good measure? (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
How's Your Front Yard Looking?
How's your front yard looking? A little bit brown due to the drought? Thinking of replacing some...
A Gulf Fritillary butterfly on purple lantana. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee on pink chaparral current. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Sweat bees (Halictus ligatus) on goldenrod. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A syrphid fly, aka hover fly and flower fly, on Russian sage. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Highly Infectious Viral Disease, 'Kind of Like Ebola'
It's something you don't see every day. I'm used to seeing Gulf Fritillary chrysalids hanging from...
This is a dead caterpillar killed by an infectious virus disease (Polyhedrosis), as identified by UC Davis butterfly expert Art Shapiro. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey Is Not Bee Vomit
For years, uninformed folks have declared that honey is "bee vomit." It's not. These things are...
Honey is not bee vomit. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)