Posts Tagged: Honey

California Honey Festival: The Place to 'Bee' on May 6

The California Honey Festival is the place to "bee" on Saturday, May 6 in downtown Woodland. The festival, free and family friendly, takes...

Amina Harris, director of the UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center, and co-founder of the California Honey Festival, talks about honey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Amina Harris, director of the UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center, and co-founder of the California Honey Festival, talks about honey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Wendy Mather, program manager of the California Master Beekeeper Program, dresses as a bee at the California Honey Festival. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Wendy Mather, program manager of the California Master Beekeeper Program, dresses as a bee at the California Honey Festival. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The annual California Honey Festival draws an average of 40,000 people. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The annual California Honey Festival draws an average of 40,000 people. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Squirrel Vs. Bees: Sorry, No Vacancy!

Call it “The Battle Over a Tree Hollow." Feral bees have occupied—and abandoned—a sycamore tree cavity in a Vacaville neighborhood...

Look closely and you can see a squirrel occupying a small hollow or cavity in a sycamore tree. The cavity has been home to feral bees for at least two decades. (Image taken in Vacaville by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Look closely and you can see a squirrel occupying a small hollow or cavity in a sycamore tree. The cavity has been home to feral bees for at least two decades. (Image taken in Vacaville by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

What's all that noise about? Can't a squirrel get some sleep? (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

What's all that noise about? Can't a squirrel get some sleep? (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The squirrel pokes his head out of his home, his sleepy hollow. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The squirrel pokes his head out of his home, his sleepy hollow. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Occupied! No vacancy! The squirrel is aware that bees are circling, trying to move into "his" hollow. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Occupied! No vacancy! The squirrel is aware that bees are circling, trying to move into "his" hollow. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

With the squirrel gone, honey bees quickly move into the hollow. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

With the squirrel gone, honey bees quickly move into the hollow. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Show Me the Honey! California Honey Festival Set Saturday, May 6

Show me the honey! The annual California Honey Festival, free and open to the public, will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, May 6 in...

Crowds throng Main Street, Woodland, during the annual California Honey Festival. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Crowds throng Main Street, Woodland, during the annual California Honey Festival. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Wendy Mather, program manager of the UC Davis-based California Master Beekeeper Program, annually dons a bee suit to welcome the California Honey Festival attendees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Wendy Mather, program manager of the UC Davis-based California Master Beekeeper Program, annually dons a bee suit to welcome the California Honey Festival attendees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Amina Harris, director of the UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center, encourages visitors to taste honey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Amina Harris, director of the UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center, encourages visitors to taste honey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

USDA-ARS Researcher Targeting Honey Bee Health Decline

If you're interested in the honey bee health decline--and you should be--then you'll want to listen to what research associate Christopher...

A sick bee crawling on a leaf. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A sick bee crawling on a leaf. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Where, Oh Where, Can They Bee?

The nectarines are bursting into bloom, but where are the honey bees? Well, they're huddled inside their colonies as California storms erupt with a...

A honey bee, cooped up in a hive for weeks due to the rain and cold, heads for a nectarine blossom in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A honey bee, cooped up in a hive for weeks due to the rain and cold, heads for a nectarine blossom in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Find the bee! There's one pollinating a nectarine blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Find the bee! There's one pollinating a nectarine blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A pollen-packing bee exits a nectarine blossom.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A pollen-packing bee exits a nectarine blossom.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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