Backyard Orchard News
Dining Where They're Not Wanted
If your hummingbird feeders are filled with that oh-so-tantalizing sweet sugary syrup, you may be...
Honey bees licking the surface of a hummingbird feeder. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Hummers can reach this syrup but the bees cannot. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Piling on the Pollen
It's a native bee. It's a pollinator. And it's a leafcutter. This morning we admired this female...
Female leafcutting bee, Megachile fidelis, foraging on a Mexican sunflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Note "the brush of hairs on the underside of her abdomen where she is packing pollen for the trip back to her nest," says native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This female leafcutting bee, Megachile fidelis, is loaded with pollen. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
New Staff Researcher Hired at Lindcove
Rock Christiano was raised on a small orange orchard farm and his passion for horticulture has...
What's in the Sunflowers?
So you're walking through a sunflower field and you're seeing lots of honey bees foraging on the...
Melyrid beetle on a sunflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Spotted cucumber beetle on a sunflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Citrus leafminer in new Tango flush
Jamie Nemecek surveys citrus leafminer damage in a large block of young Tango mandarin trees. ...
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