The honey bee hive is not all sweetness.
The first virgin queen bee to emerge from her cell (each...
Queen Cell
HOLE in the queen cell indicates that the worker bees went in and destroyed the yet-to-be-born queen. The first queen to emerge makes a mark on the shell to indicate that the worker bees are to destroy it. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at
6:32 PM
UC Davis bee breeder-geneticist Susan Cobey, manager of the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr., Honey Bee...
Susan Cobey
BARE-ARMED, UC Davis bee breeder-geneticist Susan Cobey examines a frame of her much-praised gentle bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at
4:56 PM
Faster than a speeding bullet...
As soon as UC Davis bee breeder-geneticist Susan Cobey...
Golden Bullet
GOLDEN BULLET--really a queen yellowjacket--(see far left) heads for a honeycomb held by bee breeder-geneticist Susan Cobey, manager of the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis. Beekeepers know that when they open a hive, a predatory yellowjacket with a voracious appetite for honey and bees may be in the vicinity. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Thirsty Yellowjacket
THIRSTY YELLOWJACKET drinks from a water bowl at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research, UC Davis. Yellowjackets use water to create their paper comblike nests, a mixture of saliva and wood pulp. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Friday, June 12, 2009 at
4:54 PM
WAS is not just the first and third person singular past indicative of be.
It's the Western...
Honey Bee
HONEY BEE, packed with pollen, nectars flowers in the UC Davis Arboretum. (Photo by Kathy Keatley)
Pretty in PInk
PRETTY IN PINK--A honey bee in the UC Davis Arboretum. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Thursday, June 11, 2009 at
5:47 PM
A field of dreams, for a honey bee, almost certainly would be a field of lavender.
Call it what...
Honey Bee on Lavender
HONEY BEE nectaring on lavender. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Delicate wings
DELICATE WINGS of a honey bee look like a bridal veil as as she nectars on lavender. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Friday, May 29, 2009 at
5:37 PM