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Take It From a Bee Guy: Honey Is Not 'Bee Vomit'

Foraging honey bees return to the hive to share nectar, which the house bees will turn into honey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Take it from the bee scientists. Honey is NOT vomit. That incongruous belief that “Honey is...

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Posted on Wednesday, January 10, 2018 at 8:00 AM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: bee barf (2), bee vomit (3), Eric Mussen (11), Extension apiculturist (1), honey (27), UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (2)

Focus Area Tags: Agriculture Environment Food Yard & Garden

How Are the Bees Doing? ABF Conference in Reno

A varroa mite (see reddish-brown spot under the wing) clings to a bee foraging on lavender. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

How are the bees doing? When the American Beekeeping Federation (ABF) meets Jan. 9-13 at the Grand...

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Posted on Monday, January 8, 2018 at 3:04 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: American Beekeeping Federation (1), Amina Harris (8), Gene Brandi (2), honey (27), varroa mite (1)

Focus Area Tags: Agriculture Environment Food Innovation Natural Resources Pest Management Yard & Garden

Thank a Farmer, Thank a Beekeeper

Two honey bees want the same pomegranate blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

You may have missed it, but today (Thursday, Oct. 12) is National Farmers' Day. The day originated...

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Posted on Thursday, October 12, 2017 at 5:00 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: beekeepers (2), honey (27), Kim Flottum (1), National Farmers'' Day (1), pollination (1), queen bee breeding (1), UC Davis (2), Western Apicultural Society (3)

For the Love of Bees

First graders, school officials and parents from Peregrine School cluster around a bee sculpture at UC Davis Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee for a

Sarah the Bee Girl stands in front of a cluster of first graders sitting by a six-foot worker bee...

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Posted on Tuesday, September 5, 2017 at 5:44 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: bees (1), Bernardo Niño (1), Charlie Nye (1), honey (27), Robbin Thorp (1), Sarah the Bee Girl (1), Western Apicultural Society (3), Zoe Anderson (1)

Show Me the Honey: From Your Bees!

A honey bee foraging on star thistle, Centaurea solstitialis. It's an invasive weed but makes great honey, beekeepers and honey connoisseurs say. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Imagine watching your honey bees gathering nectar from star thistle--which some beekeepers claim...

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Posted on Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at 5:12 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Amina Harris (8), Good Foods Awards (1), honey (27), honey contest (1), UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (2), UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center (6)

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