Backyard Orchard News
ICE Is Red-Hot!
You've heard folks say "cold as ice," right? Well, ICE is red hot. The International Congress of...
Worker bes cleaning out queen cells. Honey bee presentations will be part of the ICE program. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Neonics: Should They Be Banned?
Neonicotinoids. It's a 14-letter word but many people consider it a four-letter word. Wikipedia...
This honey may or may not have been poisoned by neonics, but it's definitely "under the weather." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Mohammad-Amir Aghaee, captain of the UC Davis debate team, leads a discussion at a practice Nov. 13 in Briggs Hall, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
It's All The Buzz
Honey bees will be "all the buzz" next week when the California State Beekeepers' Association...
A honey bee encounters rain drops Nov. 13 in the midst of the California drought. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This is what beekeepers want more of: rain and forage for their bees. This is a blue aster, member of the sunflower family. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Where the Bees Are
Take a photo of a bee--any bee--and then look it up in the newly published California Bees and...
A long-horned male bee, Melissodes robustior, on the leaf of a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Matadors in the Champagne Bubbles
It's cool how honey bees and syrphid flies gravitate toward the Iceland Poppy. It's a winter...
A syrphid fly, aka hover fly or flower fly, on an Iceland Poppy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A green bottle fly soaking up sunshine. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee gathering pollen. In the foreground: a freeloader fly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Two syrphids sharing an Iceland Poppy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)