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Rain Won't Cancel Open House, Plant Sale at UC Davis Bee Garden

Honey bees love ceanothus, a plant that will be offered at the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven on Saturday, April 7 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and at the UC Davis Arboretum Plant Nursery sale on April 14 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Think spring. Think ceanothus. Think salvia. Think pollinators. Despite the rain forecast, the...

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Posted on Friday, April 6, 2018 at 4:37 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven (33), spring plant sales (1), UC Davis Arboretum Nursery (1), UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (10)

Focus Area Tags: Environment Natural Resources

Why UC Davis Is the Place to 'Bee' on April 7

Honey bee nectaring on an aster. Many asters will be for sale at UC Davis on Saturday, April 7. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The University of California, Davis, is the place to "bee" on Saturday, April 7. There's a plant...

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Posted on Thursday, March 29, 2018 at 5:00 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: bees (1), Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven (33), pollinators (1), UC Davis Arboretum Plant Sale (1)

Focus Area Tags: Environment Natural Resources

Heaven in the Bee Haven

A young girl searches for bees amid the blossoms of the California native plant, Brandegee's sage (Salvia brandegeei) (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

It was heaven in the bee haven. As temperatures climbed into the seventies last Saturday, honey...

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Posted on Tuesday, February 20, 2018 at 5:04 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Christine Casey (5), Donna Billick (5), Elina Lastro Niño (2), Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven (33), Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility (4), UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day (3)

Focus Area Tags: Agriculture Environment Family Yard & Garden

UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day: Bugged!

The Design Museum in Room 124 of Cruess Hall will be open during the Biodiversity Museum Day from noon to 4 p.m. The theme:

In some respects, you could say the seventh annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day on Saturday,...

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Posted on Tuesday, January 30, 2018 at 4:07 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Entomology (5), Design Museum (1), Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven (33), It''s Bugged! Alex Wild (1), Lynn Kimsey (4), Nematode Collection (2), Tabatha Yang (2), UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day (3)

Focus Area Tags: Environment Family Natural Resources Yard & Garden

Bee-ing All You Can Be and See and Do

A native bee, Anthophora urbana, buzzes over a tropical milkweed. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

What a weekend for bee and gardening enthusiasts! It's a shame we all can't clone ourselves and be...

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Posted on Wednesday, September 20, 2017 at 4:48 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bohart Museum of Enotmology (1), California Center for Urban Horticulture (1), Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven (33), Kate Frey (1), Robbin Thorp (4), UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (10), UC Hopland Research and Extension Center (1)

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