Posts Tagged: bee
Samantha Murray: For the Love of Bees and the Love of Music
Hearing a queen bee piping is music to her ears. So is the shimmering sound of the...
UC Davis distinguished professor (now emerita) Diane Ullman with some of the art that she and Donna Billick of the UC Davis Art-Science Fusion Program installed in the Bee Haven. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A ceramic-mosaic sculpture of a worker bee, the work of Donna Billick of Davis, anchors the garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This is how the UC Davis Bee Haven looked in May of 2012. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The buzzing of the bees may some day mingle with the harp music of Samantha Murray, new coordinator of the UC Davis Bee Haven.
Good to See Ettamarie Peterson 'Bee' Honored
It was good to see Sonoma County's "Queen Bee," Ettamarie Peterson of Petaluma, bee...
Ettamarie Peterson, known as the "Queen Bee of Sonoma County," gets ready to greet visitors at the Vacaville Museum Guild's Children's Party, an annual event held every August in the museum courtyard. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis Apiculturist: Apivectoring Defined
Do you know what apivectoring is? Bee...
A honey bee heading toward almond blossoms. Managed bees such as bumble bees and honey bees are used to transfer a powder form of a biological control agent from flower to flower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, foraging on almond blossoms. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
U.S. Honey Bee Losses Highest Since 2010-11
The American Bee Journal (ABJ) and Bee Culture just released the preliminary results of...
A honey bee today (Dec. 5) forms the centerpiece of a mallow, Anisodontea sp. "Strybing Beauty." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Side view of a honey bee foraging ona winter blossom, Anisodontea sp. "Strybing Beauty." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The honey bee buzzes off to find another blossom in the dead of winter. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
It's Friday Fly Day!
It's Friday Fly Day and what an appropriate day to honor a syrphid fly. This syrphid, caught...
A syrphid fly heads for a Gaura in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The syrphid fly (above image) resembles this wasp. Here a yellowjacket and a honey bee share a rose in a UC Davis garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)