“A hidden gem.”

That’s how the Vacaville Museum Guild president described the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's newly renovated UC Davis Bee Haven.

The half-acre bee demonstration garden, installed in 2009 on Bee Biology Road, next to the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, has sprung to life with more plants, more pollinators, and more projects since its renovation launched last summer.