A honey bee and yellow-faced bumble bee share a coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) from the aster family in the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. The yellow-faced bumble bee (Bombus vosnesenskii) is one of some 50 species of bees found in the garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

DAVIS—Honey bees aren't the only bees frequenting the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, the half-acre bee friendly garden planted last fall at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility on Bee Biology Road, University of California, Davis.

Native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp, emeritus professor of entomology, who has been monitoring the garden for the past two years, from open field to planted garden, has identified more than 50 different species of bees in the haven and nearby Campus Buzzway, a quarter-acre field of wildflowers.

Representing five families, 21 genera, and 36 species, the bees include bumble bees, leafcutter bees, sweat bees, carpenter bees, cuckoo bees and sunflower bees.

Here's the list of what he's found from post-planting, October 2009 through July 2010.