Posts Tagged: honey bee
USDA-ARS Researcher Targeting Honey Bee Health Decline
If you're interested in the honey bee health decline--and you should be--then you'll want to listen...
A sick bee crawling on a leaf. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey Bee Geneticist Rob Page Knows How to Answer This Question
If you ask honey bee geneticist Robert E. Page Jr. what his favorite honey is, he'll point to...
Honey bee geneticist Robert E. Page Jr. poses with his wife Michelle (right) and Helene Dillard, dean of the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at a 2022 ceremony honoring him as the recipient of the CA&ES Distinguished Emeritus Award. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee geneticist Robert E. Page Jr. checks out a honey bee swarm.
Robert E. Page Jr. as a graduate student at UC Davis, with his mentor and later colleague, Harry Laidlaw Jr.
This decorative sign fronts the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility on Bee Biology Road, UC Davis. This is where Laidlaw and his graduate student, Rob Page--and later his colleague--worked. Artist Donna Billick of Davis created this sign. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
It's Friday Fly Day!
It's "Friday Fly Day," but no flies today. They're in a "no-fly zone." That's because of the...
Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Good Day for a Praying Mantis
It was a good day for a praying mantis. It was not a good day for a honey bee. Here's what...
A gravid praying mantis, Stagmomantis limbata, dines on a honey bee in a Vacaville pollinator garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Freeloader Flies on Friday Fly Day
Have you ever seen a freeloader fly trying to sneak a meal? Since it's Friday Fly Day--and the...
A praying mantis and freeloader flies dining on a honey bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of a freeloader fly, family Milichiidae, probably genus Desmometopa. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Freeloader flies invite themselves to dinner--a spider's dinner. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)