Posts Tagged: honey bees
Arboretum Plant Sale on Oct. 22: Yes, There's Life After Lawn
Is there life after lawn? Yes. If you're looking for plants to attract pollinators, including bees...
Monarch butterfly nectaring on Buddleia 'Purple Haze.' This will be one of the plants offered at the UC Davis Arboretum Plant Sale on Oct. 22. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Showy milkweed (Asclepias speciosa) will be available at the UC Davis Arboretum Plant Sale on Oct. 22. The milkweed plant is the host plant of monarchs; it's the only food that monarch caterpillars eat. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Taste of Honey--Pomegranate Honey
Last spring you may have seen honey bees pollinating the showy pomegranate blossoms. The ancient...
A honey bee heads toward a pomegranate blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee pollinating a pomegranate blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This is what the bees did! A mature pomegranate full of ruby red seeds. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Do Honey Bees Have Taste Buds?
You've seen honey bees nectaring on flowers. You've watched their proboscis (tongue) probing for...
Honey bees sipping nectar from a blanketflower (Gaillardia), while another bee buzzes in. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Everybody Eats in the Pollinator Garden
Everybody eats in the pollinator garden. That includes crab spiders that sprawl atop a flower,...
A crab spider, on a Mexican sunflower, eating a green bottle fly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A crab spider, on a blanketflower, eating a female Halictus tripartitus, as identified by Robbin Thorp, UC Davis distinguished professor of entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A crab spider, on a spent blanketflower (Gaillardia) eating a honey bee. It is joined by "freeloader flies," family Milichildae. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
So, You Want to Become a Beekeeper...
So you want to become a beekeeper... You want to do your part to help the declining bee...
Worker bees and queen cells. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A drone (male bee) emerging. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Find the queen! This photo of Italian honey bees was taken at Jackie Burris-Parks Queens, Palo Cedro. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)