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Posts Tagged: Mallow
Sorry, We're Closed? Not the California Master Beekeeper Program!
Sorry, we're closed! What's a honey bee to do when one of her favorite flowers, cape mallow (Anisodontea sp. "Strybing Beauty") is not open for...
An energetic honey bee heads for a cape mallow (Anisodontea sp. "Strybing Beauty"), only to find it closed. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Are you really closed for bees-ness? The honey bee peers inside the cape mallow. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
I'm going in! (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ah, sweet nectar! (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bees, We Can't Get Enough of Them!
The joy of the season strikes a chord. When bees slip out of their California hives during winter sun breaks, they often head over to mallow...
Honey bee cleans her tongue in flight as she heads for another mallow blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
"Save some for me!" A honey bee buzzes upward toward a mallow blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
"Two can share, right?" Honey bees jockey for position--and pollen. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
"Okay, let's share!" Two honey bees eye one another. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Common Checkered Skipper: Sometimes It's Not So Common!
The Mexican sunflower (Tithonia) is never alone. It loves company, attracting scores of insect guests, from honey bees to bumble bees to butterflies....
A common checkered skipper, Pyrgus communis, visits a Mexican sunflower (Tithonia). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Common checkered skipper, Pyrgus communis, leaving the Mexican sunflower (Tithonia). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Winter Visit to the UC Davis Arboretum
You don't see many honey bee foraging in the winter. They're snuggled deep inside their hives, awaiting spring. But when the temperature hits a...
A honey bee foraging on a bush mallow, Lavatera maritima, in the UC Davis Arboretum,in the vicinity of the Mediterranean Collection, back of the Storer Garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A little pollen? A little! A honey bee foraging on the hibiscus-like blossom of a bush mallow. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Nasty Mallow!
Mallow is driving me crazy! We can’t get rid of the stuff! So this year (that indicates that we’ve been at this a while) we think we’re going to outsmart it. First, since the stuff just doesn’t die, frost, intense heat, dogs, and so on, we’re going to yank as much out now with our hands covered in mittens and heads in warm fleece caps with hopes that NO seeds will develop or fall into the frozen ground. Ha! Next, we’re going to cover the ground, AGAIN, where it was growing, with cardboard or old karate mats (yes, old karate mats). Third, we’re going to plant something else on the ground as a cover, or actual landscaping, anything once it’s warm enough for anything else to survive. I tell you, this stuff could grow in the Arctic or the Sahara! Arrrghh! Mallow, you are my nemesis!
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Frozen Mallow will not Die
Mallow Arrrgh!
Bird Bath is Frozen, but no, not the Mallow, Arrgh!
