Posts Tagged: drones
All Hail the Drones!
Drones--male bees--are a favorite of youthful visitors at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee...
Emerging Drone
Thank you
Colorful Bees
What's Wrong With This Photo?
Take a close look. What's wrong with the first photo posted below this blog? If you're a...
Bliss?
Worker Bee
Not Brotherly Love
'Tis the season for brotherly love, but not in the bee hive. As the honey-gathering season ends...
Dead bees
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)