Posts Tagged: book
Brian Johnson Authors Book on 'Honey Bee Biology'
A newly published book, “Honey Bee Biology,” authored by UC Davis honey bee scientist...
UC Davis honey bee scientist Brian Johnson is the author of a newly published book, "Honey Bee Biology." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bee scientist Brian Johnson examining a frame in the apiary of the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of honey bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
'Am I Even a Bee?' Identity Crisis Unfolds in This Charming Book
Your mama tells you that you're a bee, but when you look around you, you don't look like any of the...
A female metallic green sweat bee, Agapostemon texanus, on a purple coneflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A male Valley carpenter bee, Xylocopa sonorina, on germander. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A female Valley carpenter bee, Xylocopa sonorina, on rock purslane. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, on a tower of jewels, Echium wildpretii. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A digger bee, Anthophora urbana, sipping nectar on lavender. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A cuckoo bee, Xeromelecta californica, sipping nectar from a tropical milkweed, Asclepias curassavica. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A blue orchard bee, Osmia lignaria, nectaring on Cosmos. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A male Andrena pulvera (mining bee) on meadowfoam. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A male longhorned bee, Melissodes agilis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A female leafcutter bee, Megachile fidelia, foraging on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A sweat bee, Halictus farinosus, foraging on rock purslane. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Squash bee, Peponapis pruinosa, pollinating a squash blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Day That Dragonflies Sprang to Life
Dragonflies sprang to life in dazzling colors during the family arts-and-crafts activities at the...
The arts-and-crafts activity at the Bohart Museum's dragonfly open house was a popular site. In the back (at left) is noted dragonfly expert Rosser Garrison of Sacramento. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
High school student Kate Phillips of the Da Vinci Charter Academy leads the dragonfly candle project. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart volunteer Barbara Heinsch of Davis coloring a dragonfly page. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Sacramento residents Kay Lu of Sacramento and her daughter, Lena 7, loved creating the projects. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ingredients for the dragonfly candles await the artists. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Crape Myrtle.
By Penny Pawl, UC Master Gardener of Napa County As you drive around Napa Valley...
These are only a few of the colors of crape myrtle. (idiggreenacres.com)
This is the bark of just one variety of crape myrtle. Use your web browser to see many more! (inlandvalleygardenplanner.org)
There are smaller crape myrtles . . . . (agrilife.org)
. . . . and then there are tall ones! (crapemyrtleguy.com)
Crape myrtle seed pods. (henryhartley.com)
Remove suckers from the base of the crape myrtle. (leafwoodrock.com.au)
Zuni crape myrtle. (gardenerdirect.com)
Tonto crape myrtle. (wilsonbrosgardens.com)
Arapaho crape myrtle. (gardenality.com)
Wow! Black leaves! Ebony crape myrtle. (thetreecenter.com)
Sunset Western Garden Book (amazon.com)
Color This Fantastic! A Coloring Book About Insect-Plant Interactions
Color this fantastic! As part of the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Month, the Santiago Ramirez lab,...
Six-year-old Toco Yang of Davis shows a page he colored from the Plant-Insect Interactions Coloring Book, the work of a team from the Santiago Ramirez lab, UC Davis Department of Evolution and Ecology.