Posts Tagged: Billy Krimmel
UC Davis Faculty Collaborating with Miridae Living Labs in Seed Pile Project
Two members of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology faculty are collaborating...
The Seed Pile Project.
A honey bee foraging on a California golden poppy, the state flower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Citizen Scientists Invited to Join the Seed Pile Project
Want to join the 2022-23 Seed Pile Project, a community science initiative by Miridae Living Labs...
A honey bee foraging on a California golden poppy, the state flower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Billy Krimmel's Company, Miridae: Global Honor from American Society of Landscape Architects
Miridae, a company founded and owned by UC Davis-trained ecologist Billy Krimmel, won the highly...
This is Miridae's Seed Bank Living Wall at DPR Construction that won the America Society of Landscape Architects' Award of Excellence. The annual contest draws entries from around the world. (Photo by Chad Davies)
Billy Krimmel and his wife, Tyler Whitmire, with the Seed Wall project in progress. (Photo by Morgan Kennedy)
The Miridae Company's project for it client, DPR Construction. Miridae founder and owner Billy Krimmel describes it as "a new approach to the living wall. The seed bank challenges the look and feel of the traditional 'green' living wall and instead proposes a living wall of dormant native plant seeds. This concept arms the client with a new mission to support native habitat." (Photo by Kai Skye)
Bring on the Tourists!
It's a case of a sticky situation benefitting a plant. Or more precisely, dead fruit flies or...
Assassin bug. Pselliopus spinicollis, feeding on dead Drosophila. (Photo by Sam Beck)
Caterpillar, Heliothodes diminutiva, feeding on tarweed flower. (Photo by Sam Beck)