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Queen Bee
QUEEN BEE (with the dot) is surrounded by worker bees (sterile females). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Line-Up
WORKER BEES are lined up in perfect formation as they tend to the queen bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Inspecting a Cell
QUEEN BEE pokes her head in a cell before laying an egg in it. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Friday, March 19, 2010 at
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Joy Pendell
QUEEN BEE INSEMINATION is intricate work. Here college student Joy Pendell of Pendell Apiaries, Stonybrook, gets it right the first time. She was enrolled in Susan Cobey's August 2009 class. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Queen Bee
QUEEN BEE on the finger of Susan Cobey, bee breeder-geneticist at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis. During the peak season, the queen bee can lay about 2000 eggs a day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Thursday, December 10, 2009 at
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Life and death in the bee observation hive...
If you ever have the opportunity to check out a bee...
Queen Bee
QUEEN BEE, marked with the dot, is circled by her royal attendants in a retinue. This was taken through the glass of an observation hive. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Undertaker Bee
IN THIS BEE OBSERVATION HIVE photo, an undertaker bee carries out her dead sister. The glassed-in observation hive offers a view of life and death in the hive. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at
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Oh, to be a queen bee...
Her Royal Highness (HRH) is quite pampered. She's always surrounded by...
Classic Retinue
CLASSIC RETINUE--A queen bee is surrounded by her royal attendants--the retinue. (Photo courtesy of Susan Cobey, Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis)
Queen Bee
RETINUE--It's easy to tell which bees are the queen's retinue or royal attendants. They're NOT the ones--bottoms up--cleaning the cells. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Friday, July 31, 2009 at
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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
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