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Frolicking in the Poppies

The Campus Buzzway is buzzing with bees.The quarter-acre wildflower garden, located by the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility on Bee Biology Road at the University of California, Davis, was planted last fall with California golden poppies (the state flower), lupine and coreopsis...

Heading for Poppy

HONEY BEE, tongue extended, heads for a California golden poppy in the UC Davis Campus Buzzway. The Campus Buzzway is planted with poppies, lupine and coreopsis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Rolling in the Pollen

HONEY BEE cradled inside a poppy. The poppy is the California state flower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Pollen Dust

COVERED with pollen, a honey bee emerges from a California poppy in the quarter-acre UC Davis Campus Buzzway. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Up, Up and Away

READY FOR FLIGHT, a honey bee crawls over the petals of a poppy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Buzzing at the Campus Buzzway

The Campus Buzzway, a quarter-acre field of wildflowers planted last fall near the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at the University of California, Davis, is brilliant in gold and blue, the UC Davis colors. The gold: California poppies. The blue (blue/purple): lupine. There's...

Campus Buzzway

CAMPUS BUZZWAY at UC Davis is awash in gold and blue: California poppies and lupine. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bee on Lupine

HONEY BEE gathers pollen from lupine on the Campus Buzzway. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bee on a Poppy

HONEY BEES frequent California poppies in the Campus Buzzway. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Burst of Buds, Blooms and Bees

Next spring the Campus Buzzway at UC Davis will burst with buds, blooms and bees. The Campus Buzzway, a quarter-acre field of wildflowers, took root the third week of November when a crew planted golden poppies, lupine and coreopsis (tickseed). Or more precisely, Eschscholzia californica, Lupinus...

Planting

A CREW recently planted the Campus Buzzway, a quarter-acre field of golden poppies, lupine and coreoposis, on Bee Biology Road, next the the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

UC Davis Colors

UC DAVIS colors of blue and gold will burst into bloom next spring at the Campus Buzzway. Here a crew plants coreopsis, golden poppies and lupine. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Golden Moment

GOLDEN MOMENT--A honey bee nectars a California poppy, one of the three plants featured at the Campus Buzzway. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

It's All the Buzz

Rising soon from the ashes of the Baxter House fire will be the soothing colors of the Campus Buzzway. It's a story that began in May 1938 with a farmhouse-turned-lab-turned-eyesore. It will end with the honey bees' version of "A Field of Dreams"--the Campus Buzzway. UC Davis firefighters...

Baxter House Fire

BAXTER HOUSE, built in 1938, went up in flames on June 30 in a UC Davis firefighters' control burn. The grounds will now be a quarter-acre field of wildflowers called The Campus Buzzway. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Ground Preparation

WORK is under way to transform the old Baxter House site on Bee Biology Road, UC Davis, to The Campus Buzzway, where California poppies, lupine and coreopsis will grow. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Honey Bee on Poppy

CAMPUS BUZZWAY will be planted this fall with California poppies, coreopsis (tickseed) and lupine. Scenes like this--a honey bee nectaring a California poppy--will be common next spring. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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