Backyard Orchard News
The Buzzingham Palace
"All the buzz" in England is the birth of a new member of the royal family, Her Royal Highness...
This bee observation hive, named "The Buzzingham Palace," will be on display Thursday through Sunday, May 7-10 at the Dixon May Fair. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Staff research associate Billy Synk of the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis, opening the Buzzingham Palace. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Staff research associate Billy Synk of the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis, checking the frames. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Case of Mistaken Identity
"Ah, look at that cute little yellow ladybug! Isn't it pretty?" How many times have you heard...
A spotted cucumber beetle foraging on Iceland poppy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Implications of foliar phosphite applications on pistachio rootstock
California nut growers have benefited from the use of phosphite products, marketed and sold both as...
Pistachio leaf morphology
A Bee on a Blanket
The first day of May calls for a little color. And the blanket flower (Gaillardia) fills the bill....
A honey bee heading for the blanket flower, Gaillardia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee foraging on a blanket flower, Gaillardia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
It's off for another blanket flower blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
African Odyssey: From a Fog-Harvesting Beetle to a Thundering Elephant
Entomologists don't always study insects. If you're James R. Carey , distinguished professor of...
A Racing Stripe Darkling Beetle at Epupa Falls, Namibia. (Photo by Hans Hillewaert, Courtesy of Wikipedia)
The world's second highest sand dune (Sossusvlei's Big Daddy). (Photo by Patty Carey)
Entomologist James R. Carey also took an interest in elephants on his African Odyssey. This is an African elephant in Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda. (Photo by Patty Carey)