Posts Tagged: orchard
Phacelia! You're Breaking My Heart!
Cecelia, you're breaking my heartYou're shaking my confidence daily...--"Oh, Cecelia" written by...
A honey bee forages on a lacy phacelia (Phacelia tanacetifolia) in the Joseph and Emma Lin Biological Orchard and Garden (BOG) at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee gathering nectar and pollen from phacelia in the Joseph and Emma Lin Biological Orchard and Garden (BOG) at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
And now there are two! Another honey bee joins in the foraging on the phacelia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Signage in the Joseph and Emma Lin Biological Orchard and Garden (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A colorful banner (now shredded by the recent storms) once greeted visitors to the Joseph and Emma Lin Biological Orchard and Garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
First impressions at UC Davis of an electrical weed control system for orchard crops
Tong Zhen is a Ph.D. student in the Hanson Lab at UC Davis. Non-chemical weed control...
Electric weed control takes hold in orchards
From Page 13 of the Western Farm Press (May 2022) magazine Electric weed control takes...
Newly Published UC Davis Study: How Imidacloprid Affects Blue Orchard Bees
The systemic insecticide imidacloprid, belonging to a class of chemicals called the...
A blue orchard bee, Osmia lignaria, heads for a lacy phacelia, Phacelia tanacetifolia, at UC Davis. (Photo by Clara Stuligross)
Co-author of the PNAS paper is pollination ecologist Neal Williams, professor, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis Picnic Day: Prime Time for Blue Orchard Bees, Tsetse Flies and Mosquitoes
Ah, Saturday, April 17. It's the 107th Annual UC Davis Picnic Day! What's a picnic without...