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Cover Girl

If any insect should be the "cover girl" during National Pollinator Week, it ought to be the honey...

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Posted on Thursday, June 23, 2016 at 5:55 PM

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• Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Apis mellifera (1), AR-15 (1), cover girl (1), Echium wildpretii (9), Entomological Society of America (1), honey bee (3), Journal of Economic Entomology (1), tower of jewels (15)

Celebrating the Honey Bees and Earth Day

Doom or gloom? Boom or bloom? Today is Earth Day, and millions of folks around the world...

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Posted on Friday, April 22, 2016 at 6:18 PM

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• Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: bumble bees (2), carpenter bees (1), Earth Day (1), Echium wildpretii (9), honey bees (3), sweat bees (2), tower of jewels (15)

How Tall Is It?

We have this tall plant in our back yard. How tall is it? Tall enough to give weather forecasts....

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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2014 at 9:45 PM

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• Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: blue pollen (1), Echium wildpretii (9), honey bees (3), tower of jewels (15)

To Bee or Not to Bee--a Photographer

To bee or not to bee--a photographer. Capturing images of honey bees is a delightful leisure...

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Posted on Monday, September 9, 2013 at 10:53 PM

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• Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Echium wildpretii (9), honey bees (3), photography (1), tower of jewels (15)

Labor Day Travails

Today (Labor Day) began just like any other day. And it ended just like any other day, except for...

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Posted on Monday, September 2, 2013 at 10:06 PM

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• Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Echium wildpretii (9), honey bee (3), Neoscona oaxacensis (1), tower of jewels (15), western spotted orb weaver (1)

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