Posts Tagged: Eric Mussen

Bee-utiful Work!

Honey bees--what do you know about them? Do you know what the queen bee, worker bees and drones do? Do you know why bees swarm?   Do you...

Honey bee on Almond

HONEY BEE nectars an almond blossom. This is one of the photos appearing on Cooperative Extension's newly launched Bee Health Web site. California's 700,000 acres of almonds require two hives per acre for pollination. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Pollen-Packing Bee

POLLEN-PACKING BEE heads for an almond blossom. This is one of the photos appearing on Cooperative Extension's newly launched Bee Health Web site. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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

HOLE in the queen cell indicates that the worker bees went in and destroyed the yet-to-be-born queen. The first queen to emerge makes a mark on the shell to indicate that the worker bees are to destroy it. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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

BARE-ARMED, UC Davis bee breeder-geneticist Susan Cobey examines a frame of her much-praised gentle bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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

GOLDEN BULLET--really a queen yellowjacket--(see far left) heads for a honeycomb held by bee breeder-geneticist Susan Cobey, manager of the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis. Beekeepers know that when they open a hive, a predatory yellowjacket with a voracious appetite for honey and bees may be in the vicinity. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Thirsty Yellowjacket

THIRSTY YELLOWJACKET drinks from a water bowl at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research, UC Davis. Yellowjackets use water to create their paper comblike nests, a mixture of saliva and wood pulp. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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

HONEY BEE, packed with pollen, nectars flowers in the UC Davis Arboretum. (Photo by Kathy Keatley)

Pretty in PInk

PRETTY IN PINK--A honey bee in the UC Davis Arboretum. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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