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Posts Tagged: pollinator garden
The Beekeeper
Ishai Zeldner, a beekeeper turned businessman, would have been proud. Zeldner, who died in 2018 at age 71, would have been proud to see...
These are Ishai Zeldner's bee boxes in The Hive, Woodland. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A close-up of Ishai Zeldner's bee boxes in The Hive, Woodland. He documented his work on the bee boxes. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ishai Zeldner loved starthistle honey; his business began with this varietal. Here a honey bee forages on a starthistle, a weed loved by beekeepers but hated by farmers. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ooh, an Ooth! And on a Clothespin, at That!
No doubt you've seen a praying mantis egg case, or ootheca, on a tree, shrub, fence or post. But have you ever seen one attached to a...
An eggcase or ootheca warming on a clothespin in Vacaville, Calif. This is from a Stagmomantis limbata. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This image of a gravid Stagmomantis limbata, taken last summer in a Vacaville pollinator garden, may have been the mama. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The predator and the prey. A female mantis, Stagmomantis limbata, eyes a honey bee in a pollinator garden in Vacaville last summer. She missed. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Spring Is Bustin' Out All Over
June is bustin' out all overAll over the meadow and the hillBuds 're bustin' outa bushesAnd the rompin' river pushesEv'ry little wheel that wheels...
A multicolored Asian lady beetle looking for love--or prey--on a mallow on the first day of spring. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Lady beetle, you are not alone. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Two multicolored Asian lady beetles who found one another. Well, call that a lady beetle and a gentleman beetle. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
It's spring! (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Gray Hairstreak Host Plant: A Record of Some Kind?
Where are the monarch butterflies? They're MIA on the four species of milkweed in our Vacaville pollinator garden But milkweed attracts other...
The gray hairstreak, Strymon melinus, finds a play her lay her eggs, on the buds of a tropical milkweed, Asclepias curassavica. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Gray hairstreak, Strymon melinus, laying eggs on the buds of a tropical milkweed, Asclepias curassavica. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Oh, To Be a Praying Mantis...
Oh, to be a praying mantis, and hide among the flowers waiting for prey. On a warm sunny morning in Vacaville, Calif., this...
A female praying mantis, Stagmomantis limbata, peers at the photographer in a Vacaville pollinator garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This praying mantis stops and grooms herself. Is it important to groom yourself before breakfast? (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The mantis starts her climb to the top of the Mexican sunflower blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Hey, I'm here! The praying mantis surveys her surroundings. Note: this bee did not become breakfast. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
