Backyard Orchard News
Ready for Parasitoid Palooza II? Bohart Museum Open House on Sunday, Jan. 10
If you've ever tried to rear monarch butterflies, you may have encountered a caterpillar...
A wasp parasitizing aphids. These wasps are from the family Aphidiinae. (Photo by Fran Keller)
Beer for a Butterfly: Good News and Bad News
What's the status of the "Beer for a Butterfly" Contest? Do we have a winner? Well, there's good...
Two cabbage white butterflies foraging on catmint in the summer of 2008 in Vacaville, Solano County. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Why Pollination and Pollinator Protection Are Important
If you haven't already seen it, you need to watch it. "Pollination and Protecting Pollinators" is...
Honey bee pollinating an apple blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee foraging on mustard. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
May the Buzz Be With You
Did you feel the buzz in 2015? The honey bees, bumble bees, sunflower bees, sweat bees...what a...
A female ultra green sweat bee, Agapostemon texanus, nectaring on cosmos. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenski, foraging on a tower of jewels. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee, Apis mellifera, foraging on a Bacopa. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Two sunflower bees battle it out: a male Svastra (larger bee delivers quick kick to a smaller male Melissodes. The flower is a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A praying mantis eating a bee, predator vs. prey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Freeloader flies, family Milichiidae, and probably genus Desmometopa, dining on a honey bee, a spider's prey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Can't Get Enough of Those Gulf Frits
No matter how many we see or how often we see them, we can't get enough of the Gulf Frits. That...
A newly eclosed Gulf Fritillary. Note the pupal case. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The newly eclosed Gulf Fritillary pauses before it takes flight. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Gulf Fritillary spreads its magnificent wings and takes flight. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Gulf Fritillary on a Mexican sunflower (Tithonia). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)