Backyard Orchard News
Neonics Severely Affecting Queen Bees
Everyone from scientists to environmentalists to beekeepers are clamoring for more research on the...
A queen bee circled by her retinue. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Worker bees cleaning out a queen cell. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A bee breeder's queen cells. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
About Those Drones,,,
Everyone's talking about the drones. You know, the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). Those flying...
A drone fly, Eristalis tenax, foraging on a Mexican sunflower (Tithonia). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Note the distinguishable "H" on the abdomen on the drone fly, Eristalis tenax. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of a drone fly feeding. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Woodlake Highschool Academy of Sustainable Agriculture Explores Lindcove REC
More than forty students from the Woodlake Highschool Academy of Sustainable Agriculture came to...
A Wake-Up Call to Conserve California's Monarchs
It's been called a "wake-up call." And that it is. It's designed to alert people to a problem that...
A monarch butterfly nectaring on a butterfly bush in Vacaville, Calif. today (Oct. 10). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A male monarch touches down and rests on a bee condo in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Walter Leal: An Entomologist Without Borders
Professor Walter Leal of the University of California, Davis, is co-chairing the 2016...
Walter Leal: an entomologist without borders. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)