Sun Break: Here Come the Bees

Feb 10, 2010
The Tidy Tips are a'blooming and the bees are a'buzzing.

The Tidy Tips, a native California wildflower (Layia platyglossa, family Asteraceae) is a welcome addition to flower beds.

If you walk behind the Sciences Laboratory Building on the University of California, Davis, campus, patches of Tidy Tips abound.

If it's cold, windy and rainy, no honey bees. If we're graced with a "sun break," here come the bees.

Sun break on the Tidy Tips...a sure sign of spring.

By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Author - Communications specialist
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HONEY BEE nectaring on Tidy Tips, a native California wildflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Honey Bee on Tidy Tips

SUN BREAK--no cold, no wind, no rain--means it's time for the honey bees to hit the Tidy Tips on the UC Davis campus. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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