Posts Tagged: Susan Cobey
Those Dratted Mites
Those dratted mites. UC Davis entomologist Robbin Thorp, emeritus professor and a native bee...
Mite on Drone
Mites on Hive Floor
It's All About the Bees
It's all about the bees. When A. G. Kawamura, secretary of the California Department of Food and...
A newly emerged bee at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis. During the busy season, a worker bee will live only four to six weeks.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Concerned about bee health are (from left) UC Davis bee breeder-geneticist Susan Cobey; Yuba City beekeeper Valerie Severson of Yuba City; and UC Davis apiculturist Eric Mussen. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou?
It's tough being a drone honey bee this time of year. The drones, or male bees, don't survive the...
A drone (front) starts his takeoff to find a virgin queen. At left is a worker bee, his sister. Drones don't survive the winter; the girls kick the boys out of the hive.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Queen Bee
If you were a queen bee, you'd be laying about 1500 to 2000 eggs today. It's your busy...
The queen bee (the largest bee, center) is surrounded by her court, the worker bees, who take care of her every need. They feed her, groom her and protect her "and then they have the additional tasks of rearing and feeding her young," said bee breeder-geneticist Susan Cobey of the UC Davis Department of Entomology. (Photo courtesy of Susan Cobey, UC Davis Department of Entomology)
Where's the queen bee? She's easy to spot. She's the one with the dot. These bees are part of a colony being reared by Kim Fondrk of UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)