Posts Tagged: Kim Fondrk
White Gold
Almond pollination season is approaching, and with it, come concerns. "A concern each year...is...
Almond Orchard
Kim Fondrk
Honey Bee
It All Bee-Gan at UC Davis
The "honey bee reproductive ground plan" hypothesis that originated two decades ago at the...
Hives of International Interest
Queen Bee
Bee Swarm at Briggs
Eagle-eyed Carol Nickles saw it first. The graduate student coordinator for the UC Davis...
Bee Swarm
Bee Tree
Well Said
UC Davis bee specialists were well...
Michael "Kim" Fondrk
Susan Cobey
The Queen Bee
If you were a queen bee, you'd be laying about 1500 to 2000 eggs today. It's your busy...
The queen bee (the largest bee, center) is surrounded by her court, the worker bees, who take care of her every need. They feed her, groom her and protect her "and then they have the additional tasks of rearing and feeding her young," said bee breeder-geneticist Susan Cobey of the UC Davis Department of Entomology. (Photo courtesy of Susan Cobey, UC Davis Department of Entomology)
Where's the queen bee? She's easy to spot. She's the one with the dot. These bees are part of a colony being reared by Kim Fondrk of UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)