Backyard Orchard News
Oh, Honey!
Oh, honey! Are you better than all the others? Make way for the Good Food Awards competition,...
The taste of honey right from the hive--delicious! (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A frame of honey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A jar of honey gleaming in the sun. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Some Very Hungry Caterpillars
What an amazing photo! Vacaville resident Cindy Carmouche, a nurse at Kaiser Permanente, captured...
Cindy Carmouche of Vacaville captured this amazing photo of early instar redhumped caterpilllars eating the leaves of her French prune tree.
This photo shows several redhumpbed caterpillars dining on the leaves of a redbud tree. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Boys' Night Out--with a Girl!
Two species of male sunflower bees, Svastra obliqua and Melissodes agilis, spend the day on our...
A honey bee gathers nectar from a lavender blossom while her cousins, sunflower bees (Melisodes agilis), sleep. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UCCE Tulare County and Lindcove Research and Extension Center co-host College of the Sequoias interns
University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) in Tulare County and the Lindcove Research...
SUREGE interns
Butterflies and Jackrabbits!
Have you ever seen butterflies on jackrabbits? No? Well, if you attended the recent "We Know Jack"...
A line of jackrabbits in the Vacaville Museum courtyard. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Artist Richard Rico, former editor and publisher of The Reporter, Vacaville, stands by his work, "Flyin' Jack." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Solano County Supervisor John Vasquez wheels a rabbit back into the museum. In back is Barry Rico. Together they created a "receding hareline." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)