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National Pollinator Week: Visit the UC Davis Bee Garden

A honey bee and bumble bee share a coneflower in the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. This is a yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Let's celebrate National Pollinator Week. And what better time for the UC Davis Department of...

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Posted on Tuesday, June 19, 2018 at 5:00 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Christine Casey (2), Donna Billick (2), Elina Lastro Niño (19), Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven (2), Robbin Thorp (1), UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (5)

Focus Area Tags: Agriculture Environment Family Innovation Yard & Garden

The Bee Tent at the California Honey Festival Was All the Buzz

Large crowds gathered around Extension apiculturist Elina Lastro Niño as she opened a bee hive at the California Honey Festival and talked about bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

If you attended the second annual California Honey Festival, held recently in downtown Woodland,...

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Posted on Thursday, May 17, 2018 at 5:23 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Amina Harris (4), California Honey Festival (2), Elina Lastro Niño (19), UC Davis Department of Entomlogy and Nematology (1), UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center (2), Woodland (1)

Focus Area Tags: Agriculture Economic Development Family Natural Resources Yard & Garden

Why You Should Bee-Coming to the California Honey Festival

Extension apiculturist Elina Lastro Niño (left) demonstrates how to open a hive to a UC Davis summer camp. She'll be giving three live bee demonstrations at the California Honey Bee Festival: the first at 11:15, then 1 p.m. and the third at 3:45 in the bee tent. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Here's why you should bee-coming to the second annual California Honey Festival, set from 10 a.m....

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Posted on Wednesday, May 2, 2018 at 6:56 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Amina Harris (4), California Honey Festival (2), Elina Lastro Niño (19), UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (5), UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center (2)

Focus Area Tags: Family Food Natural Resources

Honey Tasting at UC Davis Picnic Day: Berry, Berry Good!

Entomology graduate student Yao Cai (right) of the Joanna Chiu lab helped staff the honey tasting table at Briggs Hall during the 2017 UC Davis Picnic Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Honey has been called "the nectar of the gods" and "the soul of a field of flowers." Whatever it's...

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Posted on Wednesday, April 18, 2018 at 5:24 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: cockroach races (1), Elina Lastro Niño (19), honey tasting (1), maggot art (1), UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (5), UC Davis Picnic Day (1)

Focus Area Tags: Agriculture Environment Family Food Natural Resources Yard & Garden

How to Become a California Master Beekeeper

This was the scene at the Harry H. Laidlaw Research Facility, UC Davis, for a testing of applicants for the California Master Beekeeper Program. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

So you want to become a California Master Beekeeper. Yes! You can begin the process by...

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Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2018 at 5:28 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bernardo Niño (6), California Master Beekeeper Program (2), Elina Lastro Niño (19), Wendy Mather (1)

Focus Area Tags: Agriculture Economic Development Innovation

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