Posts Tagged: cape mallow

Around the Cape

It's not just honey bees that forage among the cape mallows in the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research...

Hover Fly on Cape Mallow

HOVER FLY foraging on cape mallow at the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at UC Davis. The haven is known as a half-acre "bee friendly garden," but it's also a "pollinator-friendly garden." Located on Bee Biology Road, west of the central campus, it is open year-around from dawn to dusk. Admission is free.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Close-up

CLOSE-UP of hover fly, aka flower fly, on cape mallow. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Wallowing in Mallow

One of the spectacular plants blooming in the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, the half-acre bee friendly garden at the University of California, Davis,...

Cape Mallow

PLANTS in the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven are labeled so visitors can identify them and glean ideas what to plant in their own gardens. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Lovin' the Mallow

HONEY BEE gathers nectar from a cape mallow blossom at the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Wallowing in Mallow

ATTRACTION COMPLETE, a honey bee from the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility is captured wallowing in the mallow. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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