Backyard Orchard News
Zombie Bees
Zombies!What do you think of when someone says "zombies?"Students sitting inattentively in class? A...
Honey bee heading toward almond blossoms. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bees Don't Balk at Bok Choy
If you let your bok choy go to seed, what a treat for the honey bees.The mild unseasonable weather...
Honey bee foraging on a blooming bok choy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
It's a wrap! Honey bee all wrapped up in a bok choy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Encounters of the 'Fly Man of Alcatraz'
It all started with Robert Kimsey's fly research on Alcatraz Island. Kimsey, a UC Davis forensic...
UC Davis forensic entomologist Robert Kimsey on Alcatraz Island. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Names Matter
The names are delightful. There's a fairy moth named Adela thorpella. Its namesake: native...
This is a parasitic orchid bee, Exaerete kimseyae, named for Lynn Kimsey.
This is a fairy moth, Adela thorpella, named for Robbin Thorp. (Photo courtesy of Jerry Powell)
This is Pyramica warditeras, an ant named for Phil Ward. The species name translates from Greek to mean "Ward's monster." (Photo courtesy of "The Ant Tribe Dacetini" by Barry Bolton)
Pop Goes the Pieris
Pop goes the Pieris. So wrote professor Art Shapiro of the UC Davis Department of Evolution and...
Professor Art Shapiro with his newly found cabbage white butterfly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This is the first cabbage white butterfly found this year in the three-county area of Solano, Sacramento and Yolo. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)