Posts Tagged: bees
Squirrel Vs. Bees: Sorry, No Vacancy!
Call it “The Battle Over a Tree Hollow." Feral bees have occupied—and...
Look closely and you can see a squirrel occupying a small hollow or cavity in a sycamore tree. The cavity has been home to feral bees for at least two decades. (Image taken in Vacaville by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
What's all that noise about? Can't a squirrel get some sleep? (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The squirrel pokes his head out of his home, his sleepy hollow. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Occupied! No vacancy! The squirrel is aware that bees are circling, trying to move into "his" hollow. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
With the squirrel gone, honey bees quickly move into the hollow. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Show Me the Honey! California Honey Festival Set Saturday, May 6
Show me the honey! The annual California Honey Festival, free and open to the public, will take...
Crowds throng Main Street, Woodland, during the annual California Honey Festival. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Wendy Mather, program manager of the UC Davis-based California Master Beekeeper Program, annually dons a bee suit to welcome the California Honey Festival attendees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Amina Harris, director of the UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center, encourages visitors to taste honey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomological ABCs: Ants, Bees and Caterpillars
Urban landscape entomologist Emily Meineke, assistant professor, UC Davis Department of Entomology...
A monarch caterpillar, Danaus plexippus, munching on milkweed. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of a honey bee, Apis mellifera. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Rainforest ants, Euprenolepis procera feeding on a Pleurotus mushroom. (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)
A Big Bee Bash Is Beckoning: Learn About California's Native Bees
It's billed as a "Bee Bash," but it should be "Big Bee Bash." Urban entomologist Gordon...
A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, on a tower of jewels, Echium wildpretii. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Female sweat bee, Svastra obliqua expurgata, on purple coneflower, Echinacea purpurea. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A leafcutter bee, Megachile sp., heading for a broadleaf milkweed, Asclepias speciosa. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Andrena (mining) bee on meadowfoam, Limnanthes alba. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A male Valley carpenter bee, Xylocopa sonorina, on germander, Teucrium (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A female leafcutting bee, Megachile fidelis, foraging on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A male longhorned bee, Melissodes agilis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Where, Oh Where, Can They Bee?
The nectarines are bursting into bloom, but where are the honey bees? Well, they're huddled inside...
A honey bee, cooped up in a hive for weeks due to the rain and cold, heads for a nectarine blossom in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Find the bee! There's one pollinating a nectarine blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A pollen-packing bee exits a nectarine blossom.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)