Backyard Orchard News
Is It an Insect? Find Out at UC Davis Picnic Day
Is it an insect? How can you tell? When the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology...
A popular attraction at Briggs Hall is this dispay: Is it an Insect? (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A colorful banner fronts Briggs Hall, home of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ol' Blue Eyes: A Blue-Eyed Darner
Ol' Blue Eyes. What a treat to see. No, not an old movie starring Ol' Blue Eyes himself, Frank...
A Rhionaeschna multicolor blue-eyed darner, Aeshna multicolor, soaking up sun on a Spanish lavender in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Find the blue-eyed darner in the Spanish lavender! (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
What a Stretch to Get the Nectar!
How often do you see a honey bee "standing upright" to reach nectar? "Well, I guess I could just...
A honey bee "stands upright" to reach the nectar on a Photinia blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Okay, I'll buzz over to it. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
'Mining for Bees' in the Cherry Laurels
Have you checked to see what's foraging on your early spring blooms? Our cherry laurels (Prunus...
A tiny Andrena candida foraging in the cherry laurels in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Andrena nigrocaerulea foraging in the cherry laurels in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Marching for Science on April 22
A honey bee, dusted with blue pollen, forages on a bird's eye, Gilia tricolor. We tower above her...
A honey bee, dusted with blue pollen, forages on a bird's eye, Gilia tricolor. This photo was taken in April 2010, when all was not right in the bee world. It still isn't. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Insects "March for Science" in this art work by ESA member Carly M. Tribull.