Backyard Orchard News
Please Pass the Chocolate Chirp Cookies
Bugs: they're what's for dinner! Well, at some dinners. In. Many. Parts. Of. The....
Chocolate Chirp Cookies, the work of Heather Baker, UC Davis graduate student studying malaria mosquitoes. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology cookie social! From left: account manager Guyla Yoak, contest coordinator; and winners Elvia Mayes, account manager; Steve Nadler, professor and chair of the department; Heather Baker, graduate student/mosquito researcher of the Shirley Luckhart lab; Stacey Rice, junior specialist of the Larry Godfrey lab; and Mimi Portilla, graduate student/mosquito researcher of the Sharon Lawler lab. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bees, We Can't Get Enough of Them!
The joy of the season strikes a chord. When bees slip out of their California hives during winter...
Honey bee cleans her tongue in flight as she heads for another mallow blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
"Save some for me!" A honey bee buzzes upward toward a mallow blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
"Two can share, right?" Honey bees jockey for position--and pollen. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
"Okay, let's share!" Two honey bees eye one another. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
California Master Beekeeper Program: On a Roll to Help the Bees
They've got your back. And your bees. The declining honey bee population now has 52 more friends....
California Master Beekeeper Program examiner Charley Nye tests six-year beekeeper Cheryl Veretto, president of the Sonoma County Beekeepers' Association. She is one of the 52 graduates of the CAMPB apprentice level. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
With their veils off in this portion of the practical exam, CAMPB examiner Charley Nye watches Cheryl Veretto finish the last steps of the test. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Part of the practical exam: how to fuel a smoker. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Robbin Thorp: Chasing Franklin's Bumble Bee
It may be extinct, but don't say the "E" word to Robbin Thorp. Thorp, a noted bumble bee expert,...
Robbin Thorp and his computer screen showing his image of Franklin's bumble bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp next to an almond tree on Bee Biology Road, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Great Citrus Tasting!
Growers and PCAs from around the area came to Lindcove REC today and enjoyed the tasting...