Gingerbread Bee House
Monday, December 24, 2018 9:17:37 AM America/Los_Angeles
World Bee Day Quiz 2018
Friday, May 18, 2018 10:29:19 AM America/Los_Angeles
How well do you know Native Bees? Take our World Bee Day Quiz and find out!
Don't worry about your grade, everyone gets a "B"
Bee Lawns: Take it Easy
Friday, May 11, 2018 1:24:42 PM America/Los_Angeles
One of the many stressors that today's bees face is a loss of flowering habitat.
An easy way to increase and improve habitat is to convert our grass lawns, which to a bee is a food desert, to flowering bee lawns. A bee lawn will attract and feed bees while it saves us time, money, and effort.
Blueberry Farm Pollination with Mason Bees
Thursday, April 12, 2018 12:23:44 PM America/Los_Angeles
Blue orchard mason bees (Osmia lignaria) are native bees that are active in the spring and are the perfect pollinators for blueberry fields.
Emerging from their cocoons in the spring, they fly in cooler and wetter weather than honey bees. Instead of living in a hive, mason bees live in pre-made holes and every female bee takes care of her own nest.