Backyard Orchard News
Pollinator Paradise
Picture a pollinator paradise right where nature intended it to be--near an apiary. Staff research...
Beekeeper Elizabeth Frost in front of the pollinator patch she planted. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Flame skimmer dragonfly rests on an unopened poppy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Drone fly crawls up a petal. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee foraging on a California golden poppy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bed Check!
All winter long my bee condo housed 16 tenants...and one earwig. And quite comfortably, too, thank...
Newly emerged leafcutter bee outside her nest. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
One leafcutter bee is tucked in head first; the other is ready to leave. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Red Scale Degree Day Update June 11
Degree days are about 1 week behind the 30 year average. This year in Tulare County, the first male flight occurred in mid-March, the first crawlers appeared in mid-May, and this week as the degree days approach 1100, the 2nd flight of male scale has begun.
Kern: 1089
Tulare: 1051
Fresno: 1036
Madera: 915
Imidacloprid uptake
Dr. Frank Byrne is an Associate Researcher with the Dept. of Entomology, UC Riverside. He is...
Byrne
Know Your Sticks
Entomologists at the Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, want you...
Ivana Li (left) and Fran Keller wearing their "Know Your Sticks" t-shirts. Note the real walking stick insects. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Check out the stick on the stick, second from left. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)