Backyard Orchard News
Up Close and Personal With a Praying Mantis
If you've never been up close and personal with a praying mantis, here's your chance. At the...
Night time for the praying mantis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The praying mantis, quite camouflaged. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Fuller Rose Beetle Treatments Must Continue for Citrus Shipments to Korea
1. Skirt pruning
2. Weed control under the tree to prevent bridging between the ground and the tree skirt
3. Apply at least one foliar spray to knock down adult populations
The Cold, Hard Facts About Honey Bees
Photos of honey bees can sometimes exude a dreamy, even ethereal quality, but in real life, bees...
Honey bee on a tower of jewels, Echium wildpretii. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Monarch and the Mantis
It happened so quickly. The monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) fluttered to the lantana for a...
A praying mantis leaps at a fluttering butterfly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
With its viselike grip, the praying mantis holds on to its prey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The praying mantis tightens its grip. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The monarch, mangled from its encounter with the praying mantis, didn't make it. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Love in the Bean Field
Love is where you find it. And sometimes you find it in a bean field. Take the UC Dry Bean Field...
Love in the bean field at the UC Dry Bean Field Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)