Backyard Orchard News
What's Mother's Day Without Moths?
What's Mother's Day without moths?And caterpillars? Moth specimens and a fun caterpillar...
Entomologist/Bohart associate Jeff Smith will be there to answer questions. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This is the caterpillar (larval stage) of the anise swallowtail. Bohart Museum visitors can make (free) colorful paper/chopstick caterpillar crafts on May 12. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Learning About Native Bees
So you want to learn about native bees...Just drop by the Davis Public Library next Thursday...
Male metallic green sweat bee, Agapostemon texanus, nectaring on a seaside daisy, Erigeron glaucus Wayne Roderick. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
New solar array constructed at Kearney
The solar array at the UC Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center has been completed. Robert Ray, superintendent of the physical plant, said it will be integrated into the PG&E grid within a month and begin generating electricity for the F. Gordon Mitchell Post Harvest Laboratory, the sensory laboratory and a plant and sample handling lab. Below are photos of the construction process. Infrastructure has already been installed underground to expand the array when funds become available.
Everything's Coming Up Roses--and a Few Bees
Honey bees aren't that much into roses. Wild roses, yes. Cultivated roses, not so much. Given a...
Honey bee foraging on a rose. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee blends into a rose. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee working a rose. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Migratory Immunity in Monarchs
Monarch butterflies, says Sonia Altizer, are "globally distributed and best known for undertaking a...
A monarch butterfly foraging on a Mexican sunflower in the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)