Backyard Orchard News
Promising satsuma varieties
Pictured here are thousands of slices of satsuma mandarins from one of the Lindcove research...
Checking for seeds
The Importance of Pollinators
It's a brief appearance but the message is important. Pollination ecologist Neal Williams,...
Pollination ecologist Neal Williams of UC Davis with native bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A New Year and a First Bumble Bee
What an unexpected find! It was the first day of 2013 and what did we see: a queen bumble...
A queen black-tailed bumble bee, Bombus melanopygus, heading for manzanita blossoms. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Long tongue of the queen bumble bee, Bombus melanopygus, sipping nectar from manzanita. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Queen bumble bee, Bombus melanopygus, in flight. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
He Nabbed It on New Year's Day
Art Shapiro knows where to find the cabbage white butterflies (Pieris rapae). No sooner had...
Close-up of cabbage white butterfly in mid-2012. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bye, Bye 2012
The last honey bee of 2012. Despite the cold weather at Bodega Bay last Friday, we managed to see...
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