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Sonia Rios, a recently hired UC Cooperative Extension Subtropical Horticulture Advisor in Riverside and San Diego Counties was honored with a Dean's Graduate Medalist award from Fresno State University.

Forget about fun and games. Think fun and names.

I've been waiting for a decade to see a male Valley carpenter bee (Xylocopa varipuncta) foraging in our family bee garden. The girls? Oh, yes. We see them every day. Sometimes half a dozen at a time. They're usually on the salvia or passionflower vine. The boys? No.

You've got trouble with a capital "T" that rhymes with "B", which stands for bindweed. My apologies to Meredith Wilson (I just couldn't pass up the opportunity...). But seriously, if you've got bindweed, you've probably got trouble.

Thursday, June 11, 2015, 8:45 am-12:30 pm UC Oakville Experimental Station 1380 Oakville Grade Road Oakville, CA To register, click HERE.

You've seen bumble bees in flight. You've seen the heavy pollen loads. But have you ever seen the ground nest of a bumble bee? You will if you attend the Spring Festival hosted at the Loma Vista Farm, part of the Vallejo City Unified School District, on Saturday, May 16.

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By: Carey Gillam, Reuters Honey bees, critical agents in the pollination of key U.S. crops, disappeared at a staggering rate over the last year, according to a new government report that comes as regulators, environmentalists and agribusinesses try to reverse the losses.

Did you see that amazing time-lapse video of honey bee development by Anand Varma on the National Geographic website? Varma's time-lapse video of 2500 images vividly shows the development of eggs to pupae to adults. He captured the video at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr.

This is a summary of a presentation that I made at the 2015 CWSS Annual Meeting in Santa Barbara, CA, last January. Introduction: We love our smart phones. REALLY LOVE THEM. Most of us have them (or will soon have them).