Posts Tagged: Eric Mussen
The Sting
I've been asked how I did it. How did I manage to capture that rare image of a honey bee sting...
FIRST PHOTO--When honey bees sting, it's usually a clean break. Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen getting stung. (Copyrighted, All Rights Reserved, Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
SECOND PHOTO--Honey bee pulling out abdominal tissue. This photo won the ACE feature photo award. (Copyrighted, All Rights Reserved, Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
THIRD PHOTO--Honey bee trying to escape after stinging. Worker bees die after stinging, which usually occurs while they're trying to defend their hive. (Copyrighted, All Rights Reserved, Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
FOURTH PHOTO--A strand of abdominal tissue. (Copyrighted, All Rights Reserved, Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Red Alert!
Our yard is filled with such bee friendly plants as salvia, lavender, catmint and rock...
Honey bees gather around a hummingbird feeder. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of honey bee sipping a sugar-water mixture. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Late afternoon sun backlights a honey bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Show Me the Honey! (And Taste It, Too!)
One of the six honey varieties that the UC Davis Department of Entomology will serve during the...
UC Davis honey ready to be extracted last fall. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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)