Backyard Orchard News
The Tangerine Girls
The honey bees know it before we do. The tangerines are blooming. Today dozens of bees buzzed...
A honey bee pollinates a tangerine blossom next to fruit lingering on the tree. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Acrobatic honey bee on a tangerine blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
It's the end for one blossom and the beginning of another. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bugs on Picnic Day? You Bet!
What's a picnic without bugs? Frankly, who would want to attend a picnic WITHOUT bugs? The UC...
Briggs Hall beckons with bugs on UC Davis Picnic Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey tasting will include almond, yellow starthistle, leatherwood, cultivated buckwheat, safflower and “wild oak." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Maggot art is a popular attraction at Briggs Hall. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Picnic goers can get up close and personal with walking sticks at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Mining for Bees!
Just call it "Mining for Bees." It was not long after Robbin Thorp's talk on wild bees at the UC...
Female of the genus Andrena (Andrenidae) probably Andrena angustitarsata, as identified by Robbin Thorp. This is a native, solitary, ground nesting bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
What's That Bug?
The California poppy draws lots of visitors: honey bees, bumble bees and assorted other...
A striped ladybug, Paranaemia vittigera, on a poppy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Watching the Girls Go By
Pull up a chair and engage in a little "girl-watching." That is, honey bees heading home to their...
Honey bees making a "bee line" for their home. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Note the load of yellow pollen. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Queen bee and her retinue. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)