Posts Tagged: Eric Mussen
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)
Don't Impale the Queen!
A would-be beekeeper "inherited" an empty bee box, a reconditioned bee box, in his backyard. "How...
Bee breeder-geneticist Susan Cobey of UC Davis and Washington State University shows how to hold a queen--by the thorax. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A frame of Susan Cobey's New World Carniolan bees (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Charmed
The third time was definitely the charm.After rain postponed the grand opening of the Davis Bee...
Derek Downey checks the cluster on a newly hived colony. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
First-year beekeeper Eva Dopico, a second-grade teacher in Davis, examines one of her newly emerged bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Beekeeper Elizabeth Frost (facing camera), a staff research associate at UC Davis, brought along a bee observation hive. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Neonics Creating Quite a Buzz
The neonicotinoid pesticides are creating quite a buzz in the bee world. Research published this...
A thriving honey bee colony. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bees have abandoned the hive in an apparent colony collapse disorder. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
They Want the Weather to 'Bee Nice'
"The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plains,” according to a signature song in the musical, My...
View of the Davis Bee Sanctuary. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
If the weather cooperates, visitors to the Davis Bee Sanctuary can see foragers on the nearby blossoms. This one is on a nectarine blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)