Posts Tagged: bees
Meet Sol Wantz, President of the UC Davis Entomology Club and a Wild Bee Researcher
Meet Sol Wantz, who serves as president of the UC Davis Entomology Club, a curator intern at the...
Sol Wantz, who grew up in the Bay Area, serves as president of the UC Davis Entomology Club. This image was taken at Chiricahua National Monument in Arizona over the summer of 2023.
Kim Flottum: Friend of Beekeepers and Bees
We are saddened to hear of the death of Peter "Kim" Flottum, longtime editor of Bee Culture...
UC Davis emeritus professor Norm Gary (far right) working with Kim Flottum (seated) on a television project in 2010 at UC Davis. In back is a member of the TV crew. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
In 2010, Kim Flottum, then editor of Bee Culture, stands by a cluster of bees, ready for bee wrangling by his friend Norm Gary, UC Davis emeritus professor of entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey Bee Is a True Communication Specialist
Picture yourself as a waggle-dancing honey bee. You're dancing in the dark, on a small,...
A look inside a bee hive. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Exciting to See Rob Page Double-Featured in 'Bee World'
It's exciting to see internationally acclaimed honey bee geneticist Robert E. Page Jr....
Honey bee geneticist Robert E. Page Jr. looks at a swarm. (Photo courtesy of Arizona State University)
Syrphid Flies Are Pollinators, Too
Sometimes overlooked as pollinators are the syrphid flies, also known as "hover flies" or "flower...
A dorsal view of a syprhid fly sunning itself on a leaf. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The syprhid fly senses danger and slips under a leaf. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)