Backyard Orchard News
Snug as a Bug in a...Bee Condo
When you try to attract leafcutting bees (Megachile spp.) to your bee condos, you may also attract...
Bee condo for leafcutting bees includes the offspring (left) of a solitary mason wasp. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Leafcutting bee (left) emerges from her hole in a photo taken last summer. At right a plugged hole. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Leafcutting bee sealing her nest in a photo taken last summer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Swarm Intelligence in Honey Bees
Have you ever observed how a honey bee swarm finds a new home? How a few of the worker bees turn...
Thomas Seeley will present two talks at UC Davis this week.
Honey bee swarm on the grounds of the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Frost Protection Continues
Frost protection kicked in again this week. Hopefully the rain will arrive soon and give everyone...
Wind machines in operation at Lindcove
Evolutionary Ecology of Plant Defenses
It will be like "old-home week" when Anurag Agrawal returns to the University of California, Davis,...
Anurag Agrawal, professor of evolution and ecology at Cornell, returns to the UC Davis campus Jan. 18 to give a seminar.
The A, B(ee), Cs of Stock Improvement
There's a waiting list for Susan Cobey's specialized bee classes at the University of...
Queen bee insemination at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bee breeder-geneticist Susan Cobey checks over a frame at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)