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Late Season Citrus Varieties

  Last week Lindcove hosted the CCPP annual Foundation Block Walk-Through led by Director...

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Posted on Wednesday, June 5, 2013 at 8:35 AM

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• Author: Therese Kapaun

Great Field Guide to Bees

If you've studied bees, you know that there are approximately 20,000 described species of bees in...

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Posted on Tuesday, June 4, 2013 at 10:27 PM

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• Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: bees (32), Encyclopedia of Life (1), Eric Mussen (244), field guide (1), Harvard University (2), Jeff Holmes (1), Jessica Rykken (1), Lynn Kimsey (211)

It's a Bird, It's a Plane...

It's a bird, it's a plane... It's not Superman. It's a flame skimmer dragonfly (Libellula...

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Posted on Monday, June 3, 2013 at 9:39 PM

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• Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: dragonfly (9), flame skimmer (7), Libellula saturata (14)

They're Not Sheepish on the Lamb's Ear

The next time you're around a lamb's ear--no, not the animal, the plant  (Stachys...

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Posted on Friday, May 31, 2013 at 9:54 PM

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• Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Anthidium manicatum (13), European wool carder bee (10), Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven (89), honey bees (312), lamb''s ear (1), Stachys byzantina (1)

'Life in the Hive': Bee-utiful Art

It’s all about the bees, the garden and the art. The UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Program is...

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Posted on Thursday, May 30, 2013 at 8:56 PM

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• Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Diane Ullman (49), Donna Billick (35), Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven (89), honey bees (312), Mark Rivera (2), UC Davis Department of Entomology (96)

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