Bug Blog
Looking for Bee Plants?
If you're thinking about adding more bee friendly plants to your garden but you're concerned about the drought, the UC Davis Arboretum has the answers. The arboretum will host its public spring...
A honey bee, loaded with pollen, heads for Kniphofia "Christmas Cheer." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A finch likes the Christmas Cheer, too. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Pollen Power
Female Valley carpenter bees are solid black--except when they're foraging around passion flowers. Then they're black and yellow--the yellow being the color of the pollen transferred to their...
A Valley carpenter bee receives a brush of pollen. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Check out the yellow pollen on this Valley carpenter bee's thorax. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bees frequent the passion flowers, too. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
May Berenbaum: An Amazing Scientist, Speaker and Author--And She's Coming to UC Davis
Mark your calendars if you want to hear about bees, honey laundering, sex and the single parsnip! All in a two-day period... Internationally recognized entomologist May Berenbaum, professor and...
May Berenbaum will deliver two seminars at UC Davis May 20-21.
Bee Ballet Over Matilija Poppy
Whenever you look at the Matilija poppy, you think of a fried egg. White, crepelike flowers (the egg whites) circle a cluster of gold stamens (the yolk). Sunny-side up! Native to southern...
A bee ballet over a Matilija poppy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Matched pair of foragers. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee going for the gold. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Here the Matilija poppy looks like a sombrero. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Made for Each Other
What a perfect match when a Gulf Fritillary butterfly touches down on a blanket flower. They're both reddish-orange and showy. Last weekend we spotted a Gulf Fritillary butterfly (Agraulis...
Gulf Fritillary touches down on a blanket flower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Getting ready for takeoff. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
And away it goes! (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)