Posts Tagged: Norm Gary
What Do Honey Bee Colonies Do During a Raging Wildfire?
What do honey bee colonies do when a raging wildfire heads straight toward their hives (bee...
Caroline Yelle, owner of Pope Canyon Queens, lost some 500 hives during the Aug. 19 Vacaville fire. (Photo by Caroline Yelle)
Caroline Yelle, owner of Pope Canyon Queens, checks her losses in the Aug. 19 Vacaville fire. (Photo by Caroline Yelle)
Dead brood and dying bees are in the half-burned hives belonging to Caroline Yelle, owner of Pope Canyon Queens. (Photo by Carolyn Yelle)
Beekeeper Rick Schubert, who lost his farm and bees in the Aug. 19th Vacaville fire, provided the bees for UC Davis professor Norm Gary's research and bee wrangling for more than 30 years. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Heartbreaking Story of a Bee Scientist Who Lost Everything
It's heartbreaking. Beyond heartbreaking. Caroline Yelle, 28, owner of Pope Canyon...
A wall of fire races toward Quail Canyon Road, home of Caroline Yelle's business, Pope Canyon Queens.
Smoke covers the landscape and the hives of Pope Canyon Queens on Quail Canyon Road. (Photo courtesy of Caroline Yelle)
Destruction: The farm at 8307 Quail Canyon Road gone. (Photo courtesy of Caroline Yelle)
Burned hives of Pope Canyon Queens. (Photo Courtesy of Caroline Yelle)
Bee-hold: The Eye of a Honey Bee
Bee-hold, the eye of a honey bee! Have you ever looked into the eye of a honey bee? Really...
Close-up of the eye of a honey bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Why Turning 40 Is a Bee-Boggling Event: Western Apicultural Society's Big Conference
Turning 40 can be mind-boggling. But it will be bee-boggling--all bee-boggling--when the Western...
Pointing out the queen bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Professor emeritus Norm Gary, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, kneels by his bee wrangling cluster. He spearheaded the founding of the Western Apicultural Society. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis Is Place to 'Bee' Sept. 5-8 for the Western Apicultural Society Conference
UC Davis is the place to "bee" on Sept. 5-8 for the Western Apicultural Society's 40th annual...
The Bee Team: Eric Mussen, WAS president, and his wife, Helen, his assistant in planning the WAS program. They are pictured by Miss Bee Haven, a sculpture by Donna Billick that anchors the Häagen Dazs Bee Haven. A tour of the garden is planned during the Sept. 5-8 conference. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)