Backyard Orchard News
Tribute to Medical Entomologist Bill Reisen
He lives and breathes mosquitoes. He's a medical entomologist through and through. So when UC...
AMCA President Kenneth Linthicum (left), director of the Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, presents the Meritorious Service Award to medical entomologist William Reisen. (Photo by Rick Duhrkopf)
Medical entomologist William Reisen water-testing mosquito habitats near Lahore, Pakistan in 1976
Make Way for the New Beekeepers!
Make way for the new beekeepers! Or "beeks," as they fondly call themselves in the apiary...
Extension apiculturist Elina Niño of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology points to the queen bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Eager participants in the Feb. 13 class look at a frame. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of a frame. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The hands of Charley Nye, staff research associate and manager of the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Staff research associate and beekeeper Bernardo Niño (back to camera) instructing a group of participants in the Feb. 13 class. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Extension apiculturist Elina Niño opens a hive at the Feb. 13th class. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Prospective beekeepers check out the colonies and a frame (overhead). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
About Those Bee Hive Thefts
"As bees vanish, bee heists multiply!" screamed a Feb 16th headline in The Washington Post. So...
Honey bee pollinating an almond blossom. California now has a million acres of almonds, and each acre requires two colonies for pollination. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A healthy bee frame. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
How Far North Will This Mosquito Species Go in California?
It's all over the news...the Aedes aeypti, the daytime-biting mosquito that predominantly...
The Aedes aegypti mosquito. (Photo courtesy of CDC)
Shades of Shirley Temple, Maybe?
Shades of Shirley Temple, maybe? A curly haired tarantula at the Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC...
Exchanging a curly haired tarantula at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomology graduate student Ziad Khouri (right) supervises a visitation with a curly haired tarantula. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)