Backyard Orchard News
A Hole for One
During the day, European wool carder bees (so named because the females collect or "card" plant...
This bee condo, meant for blue orchard bees, is attracting a European wool carder bee, Anthidium manicatum. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of a sleeping European wool carder bee, Anthidium manicatum. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
European wool carder bee, Anthidium manicatum, in flight, heading for lavender. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
All About Honey Bees
To commemorate National Honey Bee Day, Jefferson Exchange host Geoffrey Riley of Jefferson...
Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen talks to a tour group at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Exension apiculturist Eric Mussen, a past president of the Western Apicultural Society (WAS), speaks at a recent WAS conference in Healdsburg, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Mid-summer wine and grape tasting at Kearney
Employees from Constellation Brands, a vintner working closely with Kearney viticulture specialist Matthew Fidelibus, bought sample wines to Kearney today to compare with the corresponding grapes growing on the research vines. To read more about the research, see Vintner creates interesting new wines from research grapes.
Constellation Brands staff, from left, Dan Bosch, Owen Taylor and John Holmquist.
Matthew Fidelibus speaks at mid-summer wine tasting.
The Bounty of Pollination
If you want to learn more about honey bees and other pollinators, then “The Bounty of...
Honey bee heading toward tower of jewels (Echium wildpretii). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Yellow-faced bumble bee (Bombus vosnesenskii) on tower of jewels. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Kearney's GIS Team posts new Water Management GIS Interface