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Be a Beekeeper, Not a Bee-Haver

Backyard beekeepers must provide water for their bees or they will visit a neighboring yard, where they may not be welcome. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

If you're planning to join the ranks of backyard beekeepers in 2012, you should keep a few things...

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Posted on Tuesday, December 27, 2011 at 6:47 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: backyard beekeeping (1), bees and water (1), Eric Mussen (229), UC Davis Department of Entomology (12)

Honey of an Event!

Future beekeeper Emily Fishback with her beekeeper-father Brian Fishback of Wilton, who provided the bee observation hives. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

If you missed the Honey! event sponsored by the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science...

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Posted on Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 10:37 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Brian Johnson (7), Clare Hasler-Lewis (3), Eric Mussen (229), Honey! event (1), James R. Carey (1), Liz Applegate (3), Louis Grivetti (1), Norman Gary (3)

A Gathering of Beekeepers

Newly emerged worker bee from the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis.

Let it bee.But the California State Beekeepers’ Association (CSBA) certainly won't.When the...

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Posted on Monday, November 14, 2011 at 7:50 AM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Brian Johnson (7), California State Beekeepers' Association (3), Eric Mussen (229), Frank Pendell (1), Susan Cobey (27)

Why Flies Are Fantastic

Tachinid fly (Peleteria species) on lavender. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

You want to know why flies are fantastic?They are, you know. Just ask Martin Hauser of the Plant...

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Posted on Tuesday, November 1, 2011 at 8:02 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Eric Mussen (229), Larry Godfrey (1), Leann Horning (1), Martin Hauser (1), Northern California Entomology Society (7)

Show Me the Honey! (And the Wonder of Bees!)

Honeybee Trio is comprised of (from left) Karli Bosler, 16; Natalie Angst, 16, and Sarah McElwain, 15. In back is Donna Billick's bee sculpture. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Honey in the morningHoney in the eveningHoney at suppertimeBe my little honeyAnd love me all the...

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Posted on Friday, October 14, 2011 at 9:12 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Clare Hasler-Lewis (3), Eric Mussen (229), Honey (10), Honeybee Trio (1), UC Davis Conference Center (1)

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