Backyard Orchard News
Great Citrus Tasting!
Growers and PCAs from around the area came to Lindcove REC today and enjoyed the tasting...
Behind the Bee Veil: Charley Nye
Have you ever wondered who's behind the veil? The bee veil, that is. If you enroll in a...
Charley Nye (center) teaching a beekeeping course at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Charley Nye served as one of the proctors during the California Master Beekeeper Program testing. Here he proctors Cheryl Veretto, president of the Sonoma County Beekeepers' Association. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
LIndcove REC Fruit Display and Tasting!
Come one come all to the Lindcove Fruit Display and Tasting - more than 100 varieties of fruit...
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Confessions of a Backyard Beekeeper
Confessions of a Backyard Beekeeper. That's the title of a piece...
Beekeeper Ann M. Evans admires her first swarm (2013). "The first time my bees swarmed, they formed a heart in a tree in my yard," she said. "We caught them, my first swarm catch, and put them in a new hive." (Photo by Joyce Hardi)
UC Davis Researchers: Woolly Bear Caterpillars Pick Winner of U.S. Presidential Campaign
Score another win for those woolly bear caterpillars. For the past three decades, woolly bear...
UC Davis researchers Rick Karban (left) and his graduate student Eric LoPresti with their chart linking woolly bear caterpillars to U.S. Presidential elections. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of U.S. Presidential election predictions (red designates Republicans and blue, Democrats).
A woolly bear caterpillar on Bodega Head in 2011. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Woolly bear caterpillars eating lupine in 2008 on Bodega Head, Sonoma County. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)