Backyard Orchard News
Loving the Lupine
It's a given: Honey bees love lupine. We watched them buzzing around a flower patch of blue...
A honey bee heads for lupine. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee with a huge pollen load. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Saddlebags? No, a heavy load of pollen. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
In the Pink?
He's never seen anything like it. A pink cabbage white butterfly? Pieris rapae are not...
Ventral view: a cabbage white butterfly sprayed pink. (Photo by Greg Kareofelas)
Dorsal view: the cabbage white butterfly sprayed pink. (Photo by Greg Kareofelas)
A cabbage white butterfly in the wild. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Of Medflies and Light Brown Apple Moths
Congratulations to James R. Carey, distinguished professor of entomology at the UC Davis Department...
UC Davis Distinguished Professor James R. Carey with some of the maps he used in his research. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Come for the Flowers, Stay for the Bugs
If you're going to the UC Davis Arboretum Member Appreciation Plant Sale, set Saturday, March 7...
A honey bee foraging on a redbud, Cercis canadensis, at the UC Davis Arboretum Teaching Nursery. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This bug will greet you in the UC Davis Arboretum Teaching Nursery. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Buggy eyes, long antennae and a colorful body characterize this garden art in the UC Davis Teaching Nursery. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
An Oregon grape, Berberis aquifolium, glows in the UC Davis Arboretum Teaching Nursery. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Silence of the Cicadas
If you've ever been around cicadas, you know how loud they can be. How loud are they? They are so...
A "mute" cicada, Karenia caelatata. (Photo by Christian Nansen)
Agricultural entomologist Christian Nansen. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)