Posts Tagged: native bees
Foraging on Capeweed
Honey bees and native bees love capeweed, Arctotheca calendula, also called South African...
Native bees foraging on capeweed. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Maureen Page: Impacts of Managed Honey Bees
UC Davis doctoral candidate Maureen Page, who investigates the impacts of increasing...
Research by co-authors Maureen Page and Charlie Casey Nicholson scored the cover story of the American Journal of Botany, November 2021 edition. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Going Native: Do You Know the Native Bees of California?
Do you know the names of native bees commonly found in California's urban gardens? And how many...
A female yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, foraging on Anchusa azurea at Annie's Annuals and perennials, Richmond. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A female metallic green sweat bee, Agapostemon texanus, nectaring on a purple coneflower in a UC Davis garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A female leafcutting bee, Megachile fidelis, foraging on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola, in a UC Davis garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A sweat bee, Halictus farinosus, foraging on rock purslane in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A male Valley carpenter bee, Xylocopa sonorina, foraging on germander, Teucrium fruitcans. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A male longhorned bee, Melissodes agilis, in a Davis garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Why Soils Matter in Nesting Bee Populations
(Editor's Note: Watch the seminar on YouTube) Soils matter. They matter in the role of bee...
Bumble bees, Bombus vosnesenkii, head for their nest at the Loma Vista Farm, Vallejo. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bee Biologist Lauren Ponisio: How Pyrodiversity Impacts Pollinator Communities
How does pyrodiversity impact pollinator communities? That's a crucial question, especially...
This is a screen shot of Lauren Ponisio in a CBS Los Angeles video, "Bee Biologist Can't Stop Buzzing About Her Work." CBS wrote that she "puts science, technology and math to work in her study of bees."