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It's National Pollinator Week: Do You Know Where Your Bee T-Shirts Are?

EGSA's 2018 t-shirt winners: Brendon Boudinot wearing his t-shirt,

You've heard the phase, "wear your heart on your sleeve"--which means to show your emotions...

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Posted on Thursday, June 21, 2018 at 5:08 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: beetles (1), Brendon Boudinot (1), Corwin Parker (1), honey bees (320), Jill Oberski (1), pollinators (6), t-shirts (1), UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematologyo (1), UC Davis Entomology Graduate Student Association (1)

Focus Area Tags: Agriculture Environment Natural Resources Pest Management Yard & Garden

This BOG in the Heart of UC Davis Is a Treasure

The Biological Orchard and Gardens (BOG) sign features floral and insect designs. It's located by the Mann Laboratory, UC Davis campus. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

"A bog is a wetland that accumulates peat, a deposit of dead plant material—often mosses, and...

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Posted on Wednesday, June 6, 2018 at 3:59 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Biological Orchard and Gardens (1), biology (1), BOG (1), bumble bees (9), carpenter bees (3), Emily Dorrance (1), Ernesto Sandoval (2), heritage fruit trees (1), honey bees (320), UC Davis (19)

Focus Area Tags: Agriculture Economic Development Environment Innovation Natural Resources Yard & Garden

The Bee and the Butterfly

A Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis vanillae) clinging to a lavender stem in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

So here's this Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis vanillae) clinging to a lavender stem in our pollinator...

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Posted on Friday, June 1, 2018 at 4:42 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Agraulis vanillae (2), Art Shapiro (1), catmint (2), Gulf Fritillary (2), honey bees (320), lavender (6), UC Davis (19)

Focus Area Tags: Environment Yard & Garden

Tower of Jewels: Aptly Named

A honey bee heads for a tower of jewels, Echium wildpretii, a biennual. This image was taken in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Let's hear it for the tower of jewels, Echium wildpretii. Native to the island of Tenerife and...

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Posted on Friday, May 25, 2018 at 6:18 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: biennial plant (1), Echium wildpretii (5), honey bees (320), tower of jewels (5)

Focus Area Tags: Environment

A 'Page' in an Important Chapter on Wild and Managed Bees

UC Davis doctoral student and pollination ecologist Maureen Page has received prestigious three-year fellowship, a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, funded by the Department of Defense.

Congratulations to doctoral student and pollination ecologist Maureen Page of the Neal Williams...

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Posted on Wednesday, May 23, 2018 at 5:51 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: bumble bees (9), Department of Defense grant (1), honey bees (320), managed bees (1), Maureen Page (2), UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (18), wild bees (1), wildflower plantings (1)

Focus Area Tags: Agriculture Environment Natural Resources

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