Backyard Orchard News
Yes, You Do Eat Insects!
Yes, you do eat insects! Maybe not deliberately, as in those who engage in entomophagy, the...
Booklice, Liposcelis bostrychophila, in cornmeal. This image was taken with a Canon MPE-65mm lens. The bugs are five times their life size. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This is what you really see with the naked eye: the booklice are nearly microscopic. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Why These Mealworms Don't Miss a Meal
Several years ago you probably read about the Stanford researchers who discovered that...
Close-up of a mealworm on Styrofoam. This image was taken with a Canon MPE-65 mm lens. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Trevor Fowles, a second-year doctoral student in the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, with his mealworms. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Mealworms eating Styrofoam in the Christian Nansen lab at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Katja Poveda: Zeroing in on Plant-Insect Interactions
Let's consider plant-insect interactions in agro-ecosystems. That's what Katja Poveda, assistant...
Katja Poveda (left), assistant professor of entomology at Cornell, working on potatoes in her greenhouse.
Bee-hold: The Eye of a Honey Bee
Bee-hold, the eye of a honey bee! Have you ever looked into the eye of a honey bee? Really...
Close-up of the eye of a honey bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Here Come the Carpenter Bees!
It's spring and it's loud in the Spanish lavender patch. The girls--the honey bees--are buzzing...
A male mountain carpenter bee, Xyclocopa tabaniformis orpifex, nectaring on Spanish lavender. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A male mountain carpenter bee, Xyclocopa tabaniformis orpifex, peers at the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Side view of the male mountain carpenter bee, Xyclocopa tabaniformis orpifex, nectaring on Spanish lavender. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)