Backyard Orchard News
The Big 43: The California Native Plants, Plus One, Studied in UC Davis Research
When pollination ecologists from the Neal Williams lab at the University of California Davis--Ola...
A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, heading toward California poppy,Eschscholzia californica. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Andrena (mining bee) on meadowfoam, Limnanthes alba. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee, Apis mellifera, on fiddleneck, Amsinckia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Native plant species (Photos by Ola Lundin)
Merry Buzzworthy Christmas!
Feeling the buzz on Christmas Day? Bugs on your Christmas tree? You may have overlooked another...
A honey bee heads toward a tower of jewels, Echium wildpretii. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
'Twas the Night Before Chrysalis...
'Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a...
A monarch chrysalis hangs like an ornament. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A monarch ecloses. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The monarch wiggles around and soon will dry its wings and take flight. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A male monarch spreads its wings. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
'Beekeeping and Management' Part of UC Davis Veterinary Medicine's Winter Conference
Mark your calendar! "Beekeeping and Management" will be part of the two-day UC Davis School of...
A honey bee colony at work. Extension apiculturist Elina Niño will discuss three topics dealing with "Beekeeping and Management" at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine's 2019 winter conference. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Extension apiculturist Elina Lastro Niño opening a hive at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis Seminars: From Spotted Wing Drosophila to Spider Glue to Wild Bees
From spotted wing drosophila to spider glue to wild bees! Medical entomologist Geoffrey Attardo,...
Spotted-wing drosophila on raspberry. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)