Posts Tagged: Eric Mussen
Not All Sweetness
The honey bee hive is not all sweetness. The first virgin queen bee to emerge from her cell (each queen cell resembles a peanut shell) will rid the...
Queen Cell
The Shirt Off Her Back
UC Davis bee breeder-geneticist Susan Cobey, manager of the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr., Honey Bee Research Facility, is the kind of person who would...
Susan Cobey
Faster Than a Speeding...
Faster than a speeding bullet... As soon as UC Davis bee breeder-geneticist Susan Cobey opened a beehive and removed a chunk of honeycomb to...
Golden Bullet
Thirsty Yellowjacket
Wazzup Aug. 17-20? WAS!
WAS is not just the first and third person singular past indicative of be. It's the Western Apicultural Society, an organization dedicated to the...
Honey Bee
Pretty in PInk
All Things Lavender
A field of dreams, for a honey bee, almost certainly would be a field of lavender. Call it what you want, but if a bee could talk, it would probably...
Honey Bee on Lavender
Delicate wings