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Phacelia! You're Breaking My Heart!
Cecelia, you're breaking my heartYou're shaking my confidence daily...--"Oh, Cecelia" written by Paul Simon of Simon and Garfunkle If you think of the song, "Oh, Cecelia,' every time you pronounce Phacelia (the plant), you're not alone. Pollinators, especially honey bees, bumble...
A honey bee forages on a lacy phacelia (Phacelia tanacetifolia) in the Joseph and Emma Lin Biological Orchard and Garden (BOG) at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee gathering nectar and pollen from phacelia in the Joseph and Emma Lin Biological Orchard and Garden (BOG) at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
And now there are two! Another honey bee joins in the foraging on the phacelia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Signage in the Joseph and Emma Lin Biological Orchard and Garden (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A colorful banner (now shredded by the recent storms) once greeted visitors to the Joseph and Emma Lin Biological Orchard and Garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bugs-Plants-People Interactions at UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day
Plenty of interactions occurred among bugs, plants and people at the 12th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, a Super Science Day recently held on the UC Davis campus and both free and family friendly. Check out some of the activities at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, the...
Three youngsters delight in moving wildlife around--a squirrel, a bear, a carpenter bee and a butterfly--at the Bohart Museum of Entomology during the 12th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A boy raises his hand to ask a question as Professor Fran Keller of Folsom Lake College, a Bohart Museum of Entomology scientist, discusses arthropods, including the black widow spiders in the foreground. The occasion: the 12th annual Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Miles Pickard, 4, listens as his mother, Marissa Pickard, points out a display at the Center for Plant Diversity at the 12th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Alison Colwell, curator of the UC Davis Herbarium, lines up displays for the 12th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Marlene Simon, curator of the Botanical Conservatory, points to a plant that needs pollinating. She is known as "The Plant Lady" on the TV program, Good Day Sacramento. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day volunteer Anna Klestinec contemplates the plants in the Botanical Conservatory. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Hidden Treasure at UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day
Talk about those tenacious tidy tips. And those picture-perfect phacelias. When you attend the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day on Saturday, Feb. 15, you'll see these California natives blooming in the Biological Orchard and Gardens (BOG), a 24,000-square-foot treasure behind the UC Davis...
A honey bee foraging on a desert bell, Phacelia campanularia, an annual herb that is native to California. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A sign defines the Biological Orchard and Gardens (BOG). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
If You Like Chocolate, Thank the Midges!
If you like chocolate, thank the midges. These tiny flies (about 1 to 3mm) pollinate the intricate flowers of the cacao tree, Theobroma cacao. From those seed pods, known as cocoa beans, come the chocolate that we crave. In fact, we Americans consume 2.8 billion pounds of chocolate every year, or...
Ernesto Sandoval, collections manager for the UC Davis Botanical Conservatory, checks out the cacao tree, aka "chocolate tree." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Biodiversity Reigns Supreme
Biodiversity--that's what it's at on Sunday, Feb. 12 at the University of California, Davis.That's when four museums or centers that engage in education and research involving insects, vertebrates or plants will host open houses. And folks will be amazed, officials promise. The Bohart Museum of...
Senior museum scientist Steve Heydon shows his son, James, 10, around the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
