Posts Tagged: Norman Gary
Sister, Can You Spare Some Food?
We can all learn from the honey bees. Worker bees--sisters--are like feeding machines. They not...
Worker bees--sisters--sharing nectar at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at the University of California, Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Rub-a-Dub-Dub
Ever seen honey bees engaging in washboarding? It's a behavior so named because they look as...
Honey bees engaging in washboarding behavior with "rocking" or up-and-down movements. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Foragers flying back to the hive as their sisters engage in washboarding activity on the wall, or what Susan Cobey calls "sweeping the front porch." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey of an Event!
If you missed the Honey! event sponsored by the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science...
Future beekeeper Emily Fishback with her beekeeper-father Brian Fishback of Wilton, who provided the bee observation hives. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis assistant professor Brian Johnson (left) answers a question from beekeeper Clay Ford of Vacaville. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
So, You Have This Bee Phobia...
Are you afraid of bees? Not apiculturist Norman Gary, emeritus professor of entomology at UC...
Apiculturist/bee wrangler Norman Gary, emeritus professor of entomology at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Norm Gary, bee wrangler, loves his bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Aloha, Bees!
When beekepers from all over the Western states converge on the Western Apicultural Society (WAS)...
Eric Mussen will be a key speaker at the Western Apicultural Society conference in Hawaii. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A touch of Hawaii--a honey bee on a lily. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)