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Beekeeping Chat
BEEKEEPER Frank Pendell of Pendell Apiaries, Stonyford, Calif., vice president of the California State Beekeepers' Association, chats with Dori Sera Bailey, director of consumer communications, Häagen-Dazs and Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream. In the back are visitors touring the garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Beekeepers
EXTENSION APICULTURIST Eric Mussen (left) discusses honey bee health with Brian Fishback, president of the Sacramento Area Beekeepers Association and Annie Bisbee of Concord, a three-year beekeeper who maintains five hives. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Native Pollinators
NATIVE POLLINATOR specialist Neal Williams, assistant professor of entomology, UC Davis Department of Entomology, gives a talk on native bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Surrounded by Sedum
HONEY BEE HAVEN looked glorious in its fall colors, including sedum (foreground). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bee observation hive
BEE VIRUS RESEARCHER Michelle Flenniken, the Häagen-Dazs postdoctoral scholar connected to UC Davis and UC San Francisco, shows a bee observation hive to visitors. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Posted on
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at
9:41 PM
Glory bee.
There are more than just honey bees in the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven.
Think...
Bee on a coneflower
THIS BEE, a Svastra obliqua expurgata, forages on a purple coneflower in the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. Native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp, emeritus professor of entomology, is monitoring the many species of bees in the garden. To date: more than 50 over the last two years. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Carpenter Bee
CARPENTER BEE, a female Xylocopa varipuncta, on a black-eyed Susan planted in the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Tachinid Fly
TACHINID FLY at work in the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. Tachinids parasitize other insects, especially caterpillars, beetle grubs and others, notes UC Davis native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp, emeritus professor of entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Chomp, Chomp
YOU'RE LIKELY to encounter a praying mantis in the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. This praying mantis is polishing off a winged critter. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Posted on
Friday, September 10, 2010 at
8:34 PM
Diane Ullman, Donna Billick and Sarah Dalrymple (Sarah is shown at right) are used to thinking...
Intricate Work
THE TWO BEEHIVE columns installed at the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven involved intricate work. Here Diane Ullman, Eric Mussen and Donna Billick adjust the structure. Ullman and Billick are the co-founders and co-directors of the UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Program that created the art for the haven. Mussen is an Extension apiculturist and a member of the UC Davis Department of Entomology faculty. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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INSTALLING a beehive column in the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven are Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen and UC Davis entomology professor Diane Ullman, associate dean for undergraduate academic programs at the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Raising the Box
TWO SETS of hands raise a bee box at the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. The trio of Eric Mussen, Diane Ullman and Donna Billick installed the two beehive columns, which grace the entrance to the bee friendly garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Posted on
Thursday, September 9, 2010 at
7:06 PM
Undergraduate degree in genetics? Check.
Master’s degree in fine arts? Check.Scientist and artist?...
Rock Artist
SELF-DESCRIBED rock artist Donna Billick with her sculpture, "Miss Bee Haven," at the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-Up
BEE SCULPTURE created by Donna Billick is morphologically correct, says Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen. Below the bee is ceramic art by Davis artist Sarah Rizzo of a purple dome aster. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The End
BUSINESS END of the honey bee. Donna Billick created this six-foot long bee sculpture, funded by Wells Fargo, for the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Posted on
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 at
7:49 PM
The Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, the half-acre bee friendly garden planted last fall next to the...
Sweat Bee
SWEAT BEE--This is a striped sweat bee, Halictus ligatus, on a Mexican hat flower (Ratibida columnifera) in the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Yellow-Faced Bumble Bee
YELLOW-FACED bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, is one of three species of bumble bees detected in the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. This bumble bee is foraging on a tower of jewels (Echium wildprettii). The haven's five towers of jewels will bloom in the spring. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Leafcutter Bee
ANOTHER BEE detected in the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven is the leafcutter bee (Megachile sp.) This one is on a rock purslane (Calandrinia grandiflora). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Sunflower Bee
SUNFLOWER BEE, Svastra obliqua expurgata, foraging on a sunflower head. This bee is one of more than 50 species of bees found in the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Posted on
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at
6:36 PM