Posts Tagged: beetle
Elderberry
Gardeners looking for a drought-tolerant and highly disease-resistant native shrub might consider...
Applause for the Pollinators
Bees, butterflies, beetles, birds and bats. What do they have in common? Skipping the alliteration...
A Western tiger swallowtail, Papilio rutulus, touches down on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The soldier beetle (family Cantharida) is also a pollinator. This insect resembles the uniforms of the British soldiers of the American Revolution. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee, Apis mellifera, and a Western yellowjacket, Vespula penslvanica, sharing a rose. Both are pollinators. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee, Apis mellifera, and a bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, sharing a purple cone flower, Echinacea purpurea. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
What are “Good Bugs”?
There are many types of “good bugs” commonly found in the garden or landscape. In...
Walter Leal and Team Identify Major Sex Pheromone of Severe Ag Pest
Newly published research led by UC Davis distinguished professor Walter Leal and Jiao Yin of...
Male large black chafer beetles, Holotrichia parallela, flying toward a synthetic sex pheromone (in traps). (Photo courtesy of the Walter Leal lab)
This large black chafer beetle is a calling female (note the tip of the abdomen extruding a pheromone gland). (Photo courtesy of Walter Leal lab)
The Intensity of a Territorial Bee Targeting a Blister Beetle
If you're feeling overwhelmed during the holiday season and just can't seem to concentrate, check...
A male Melissodes agilis targeting a meloid beetle on a Tithonia in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The blister beetle eating pollen. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)