Posts Tagged: swarms
Top 20 Pest Notes of 2017
Pests have popularity contests too. We recently looked at how many visits our popular Pest Notes...
Bug Outbreaks in Kern County high desert
Over the past few weeks there have been numerous reports of bug invasions near Ridgecrest,...
Ultimate Swarms
It was blazing hot that summer day in Winters, Calif. The date: July 22, 2012. The place: a...
Norm Gary's bee cluster in the middle of a sunflower field in Winters. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
BBC crew sets up in a Winters' sunflower field, as Norm Gary sprays sugar water on his bee cluster. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Unhappy Ending
Bee swarms don't always have happy endings. Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen of the UC Davis...
Honey bees ready to swarm at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bee swarm in a tree at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bees in a 2008 swarm feed each other on the hand of Eric Mussen, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Swarm Intelligence in Honey Bees
Have you ever observed how a honey bee swarm finds a new home? How a few of the worker bees turn...
Thomas Seeley will present two talks at UC Davis this week.
Honey bee swarm on the grounds of the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)