Posts Tagged: bee
Bee-Hold: the Feral Bee Colony on UC Davis Campus
Back in July 2023, we wrote a Bug Squad blog about a feral bee colony inside a cavity of a sycamore...
Close-up of a feral bee colony living a sycamore tree on the UC Davis campus. Image taken Sunday, Sept. 3, 2023. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A wide-angle view of the feral bee colony that is living in a sycamore tree cavity on the UC Davis campus. Image taken Sept. 3, 2023. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This was the hot-weather scene in July 2023 when bees bearded outside their home in a sycamore tree on the UC Davis campus. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Bee-Butterfly Battle Over a Zinnia
An Anise Swallowtail, Papilio zelicaon, settles on a red zinnia in a Vacaville pollinator...
An Anise Swallowtail, sipping nectar from a red zinnia, seems unaware of a buzzing honey bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Anise Swallowtail: "What great nectar!" Bee: "I want some, too!" (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Anise Swallowtail: "This nectar is great." Bee: "Are you sharing or moving or what?" (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
It's touch and go! The honey bee, Apis mellifera, touches and the Anise Swallowtail, Papilio zelicaon, goes. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Celebrating the Honey Bee on Labor Day
It's Labor Day but "The Girls" continue to work. "The Girls" are the honey bees, a great example...
A honey bee, packing a load of orange pollen, buzzes over a red zinnia in a Vacaville pollinator garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Here's to Celebrating National Honey Bee Day
Hear that buzz? National Honey Bee Day is Saturday, Aug. 19 and you're invited to join this...
A honey bee foraging in a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Glory of the Bindweed Turret Bees
If you've ever seen the nests of the bindweed turret bees, Diadasia bituberculata, and if...
A bindweed turret bee, Diadasia bituberculata, foraging for pollen on bindweed, aka morning glory. (Photo by Rachel Vannette)
A close-up of a bindweed turret bee, Diadasia bituberculata (Photo by Rachel Vannette)
UC Davis community ecologist Rachel Vannette at work. She is an associate professor, Chancellor's Fellow and vice chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.
A close-up of a turret formed by a bindweed turret bee. (Photo by Rachel Vannette)