Posts Tagged: Argentine

Ants: 'The Little Things That Run the World'

The recent death of "Ant Man" E. O. Wilson brings back memories of a family-friendly seminar on ants that UC Davis Professor Phil...

An Argentine ant climbs up a spoon laden with honey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

An Argentine ant climbs up a spoon laden with honey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

An Argentine ant quickly crawls away from a spoonful of honey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

An Argentine ant quickly crawls away from a spoonful of honey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Once Upon a Time...

Once upon a time, there was a redhumped caterpillar gorging on the leaves of a redbud tree. For three days, the hungry caterpillar gobbled the...

Redhumped Caterpillar

REDHUMPED CATERPILLAR gorges on the leaves of a redbud tree. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

No More

THIS redhumped caterpillar never made it to a redhumped caterpillar moth. A spider and an army of Argentine ants made sure of that. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

What's Up, Cuz?

Country cousins.  Honey bees and ants belong to the same order, Hymenoptera, and occasionally you see them together. Such was the case today in the...

Honey Bee and an Ant

HONEY BEE and an Argentine ant share a red-hot poker in the Storer Garden, UC Davis Arboretum. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Nectaring on Lavender

HONEY BEE nectars a red hot poker, while a close cousin, an Argentine ant (far left), tucks itself among the petals. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

It's Raining Rain Lilies

It's raining rain lilies in the Carolee Shields White Flower Garden of the UC Davis Arboretum. The Argentine Rain Lily (Zephyranthes candida), also...

Honey Bee in Rain Lily

HONEY BEE, packing pollen, heads into a patch of Argentine rain lilies (Zephyranthes candida) in the White Garden, UC Davis Arboretum. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Pollen Galore

POLLEN-PACKING honey bee glides into an Argentine rain lily (Zephyranthes candida) in the White Garden, UC Davis Arboretum. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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