Bug Squad

Bumble bee on bull thistle at Bodega Bay

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UC ANR is renovating its website. The Bug Squad blog, by Kathy Keatley Garvey of the University of California, Davis, is a daily (Monday-Friday) blog launched Aug. 6, 2008. It is about the wonderful world of insects and the entomologists who study them. Blog posts are archived at https://my.ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/archive.cfm

ROSE GARDEN--The All-America Rose Selections (AARS) Test Garden on Hopkins Road, UC Davis, features 30 new rose varieties--and insects have their pick. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Insects Find This Garden Rosy

November 23, 2010

It's the kind of rose garden that Joe South would write about. The Grammy-award winning songwriter-guitarist who wrote "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden" (popularized by country singer Lynn Anderson), has probably never seen this rose garden, though.

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HONEY BEE foraging at the San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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So Much Has Happened...

November 22, 2010

It's a romantic getaway. Say "San Ysidro Ranch" and someone will tell you that John F. Kennedy and his bride, Jackie, honeymooned there in September 1953. So much has happened since then. JFK went on to win the presidency in 1961 and tragically, 47 years ago today--Nov.

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ROCK ARTIST Donna Billick, with her sculpture, "Miss Bee Haven," at the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis. Billick will be showing some of her work at the Pence Art Gallery, Davis, Nov. 23-Dec. 23. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Sticky Business: Art of the Honey Bee

November 19, 2010

Honey is sticky. Bees are in a sticky situation. Now enter "Sticky Business: Art of the Honey Bee." It's an art show about honey bees that will run from Tuesday, Nov. 23 from Thursday, Dec. 23 in the Pence Art Gallery, 212 D St., Davis.

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PLANTS in the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven are labeled so visitors can identify them and glean ideas what to plant in their own gardens. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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Wallowing in Mallow

November 18, 2010

One of the spectacular plants blooming in the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, the half-acre bee friendly garden at the University of California, Davis, is the cape mallow (Anisodontea hypomandarum), a native of South Africa.

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BLOND HONEY BEE, of the Cordovan subspecies of the Italian race of honey bees, nectaring on lavender. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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More Precious Than Gold

November 17, 2010

Ever see a golden bee that takes your breath away? They're most likely Cordovans, a subspecies of the Italian race. The one below is a Cordovan, basically a bee with a color mutation that inhibits black, explains noted bee breeder-geneticist Susan Cobey.

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