If you let your bok choy go to seed, what a treat for the honey bees. The mild unseasonable weather and blooming bok choy--perfect for foraging honey bees searching for food in January. Mother Nature may fool them. Bok choy does not.
The names are delightful. There's a fairy moth named Adela thorpella. Its namesake: native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp, emeritus professor of entomology at UC Davis. Who wouldn't want to be Adela thorpella? The name just rolls off the tongue.
Pop goes the Pieris. So wrote professor Art Shapiro of the UC Davis Department of Evolution and Ecology from his office in Storer Hall. Yes, he won his own contest again.
