There's not much blooming this time of year but if and when blossoms burst open, the honey bees are going to find them. Take the Anisodontea capensis, the cape mallow or African mallow. It's a species in the mallow family, Malvaceae.
"Bee-free honey?" What? It's interesting that a company based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, has announced plans to produce a "bee-free honey." Snackandbakery.com recently published a piece about Fooditive's plans.
What an incredible art show that two UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology faculty recently hosted in the Labudio (lab+studio) of the UC Davis Environmental Horticulture Building, 200 Arboretum Drive.
