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Bumble bee on bull thistle at Bodega Bay
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In a Butterfly State-of-Mind

September 29th, 2016
So here's this gravid praying mantis perched on a Mexican sunflower (Tithonia) in a Vacaville pollinator garden. She's in a butterfly state-of-mind, a picture of patience and persistence, a predator like no other. She doesn't have long to wait.
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That Amazing Migrating Monarch Project

September 27th, 2016
He may have been born" in an Ashland, Ore., vineyard. But at least we know he hails from Ashland. That's what we learned about the male monarch that fluttered into our pollinator garden in Vacaville, Calif. on Monday, Sept.
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It's All the Buzz: WAS to Meet in Davis in 2017

September 26th, 2016
It's all the buzz. It's just been announced that the Western Apicultural Society (WAS), founded 40 years ago at UC Davis, will be meeting ...drum roll...Sept. 5-8, 2017 in Davis, Calif. That's the kind of advance notice we like. Fortieth anniversary? Is that possible? It is.
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