Bug Blog
Oh, Honey!
Oh, honey! Are you better than all the others? Make way for the Good Food Awards competition, opening July 6. This year is the second consecutive year for the honey category. Last year more than 50...
The taste of honey right from the hive--delicious! (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A frame of honey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A jar of honey gleaming in the sun. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Some Very Hungry Caterpillars
What an amazing photo! Vacaville resident Cindy Carmouche, a nurse at Kaiser Permanente, captured a photo of early instar redhumped caterpillars eating her French prune leaves. One look at this...
Cindy Carmouche of Vacaville captured this amazing photo of early instar redhumped caterpilllars eating the leaves of her French prune tree.
This photo shows several redhumpbed caterpillars dining on the leaves of a redbud tree. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Boys' Night Out--with a Girl!
Two species of male sunflower bees, Svastra obliqua and Melissodes agilis, spend the day on our Mexican sunflowers (Tithonia) chasing the girls and protecting their turf. Sometimes I wonder why they...
A honey bee gathers nectar from a lavender blossom while her cousins, sunflower bees (Melisodes agilis), sleep. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Butterflies and Jackrabbits!
Have you ever seen butterflies on jackrabbits? No? Well, if you attended the recent "We Know Jack" public art exhibit at the Vacaville Museum on Buck Avenue, you saw jackrabbits. Plenty of jack...
A line of jackrabbits in the Vacaville Museum courtyard. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Artist Richard Rico, former editor and publisher of The Reporter, Vacaville, stands by his work, "Flyin' Jack." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Solano County Supervisor John Vasquez wheels a rabbit back into the museum. In back is Barry Rico. Together they created a "receding hareline." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Seeing Spots--12 of Them
The most common dragonfly in our little family bee garden is the red flameskimmer, Libellula saturata. Last Sunday, however, a new species arrived--a male twelve-spotted skimmer (Libellula...
A twelve-spotted dragonfly. Libellula pulchella, perches on a bamboo stake. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Seeing spots--12 of them. This is a male twelve-spotted skimmer (Libellula pulchella). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)