Backyard Orchard News
A Taste of Honey
Honey! Today at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at the University of...
Honey bee sipping honey in the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of bee sipping honey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee quickly finds the honey in a spoon. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Land of Milk and Honey
At the entrance, the recent California Agriculture Day celebration on the west lawn of the State...
Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen (left) of UC Davis with California State Beekeepers' Association president Bryan Ashurst of Westmorland. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Crowd filters into the California Ag Day celebration. This is the California State Beekeepers' Association booth. (Photo y Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Thumbs up, a costumed tomato mascot stops in front of the California State Beekeepers' Association booth. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bee Swarm!
Bee swarms are absolutely fascinating.Several years ago, when bee breeder-geneticist Susan Cobey...
Honey bee swarm in the North Hall/Dutton Hall complex at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC teaches kids about food and farming
Nearly 2,000 third-graders visited the Fresno County fairgrounds March 23 to learn about the connection between the food they eat and their home county's No. 1 economic driver, agriculture.
Farm and Nutrition Day is sponsored by the Fresno County Farm Bureau and the Fresno Fair. UC Cooperative Extension in Fresno County has been involved since the event's inception in 2005; this was the first year for the UC Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center to bring an educational booth to the event.
KARE program and facility coordinator Laura Van Der Staay and her assistant Julie Sievert secured donations of lettuce seedlings, potting soil and pots to give to the children who visited the booth. In addition, Van Der Staay and Sievert used a felt board to teach the children about the benefits of eating right and exercise.
Ladies (and Men) in Red
Two ladybugs, aka lady beetles, circled their little house, a 1.5-inch plastic container punctured...
Ladybug devouring an aphid on a rose bush. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)