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'Bee Man' Norm Gary Featured at WAS Conference at UC Davis

'Bee Man' Norm Gary is surrounded by bees as he is about to perform a bee wrangling stunt. He is now retired from bee wrangling. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Honey bees intrigue, delight and fascinate Norman Gary. In fact, they have for 70 years. Seven...

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Posted on Friday, August 11, 2017 at 4:38 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: bee wrangler (1), bees'' knees (1), Eric Mussen (4), Norman Gary (13), Western Apicultural Society (2)

Pollen Power

Honey bee covered with pollen; she is on a yellow coneflower, Echinacea paradoxa. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bees carry pollen in their pollen baskets, but that's not the only place. "Pollen grains adhere to...

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Posted on Monday, May 27, 2013 at 10:03 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: honey bee (2), Norman Gary (13), pollen (2)

Bee My Valentine

Queen bee (with dot) and worker bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

It's nice to remember the honey bee on Valentine's Day. You'll see many Valentine cards...

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Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 8:33 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Harry H Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility (1), Norman Gary (13), queen bee (1)

Sister, Can You Spare Some Food?

Worker bees--sisters--sharing nectar at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at the University of California, Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

We can all learn from the honey bees. Worker bees--sisters--are like feeding machines. They not...

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Posted on Tuesday, September 11, 2012 at 9:47 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: feeding one another (1), honey bees (2), Norman Gary (13), UC Davis Department of Entomology (2)

Rub-a-Dub-Dub

Honey bees engaging in washboarding behavior with

Ever seen honey bees engaging in washboarding? It's a behavior so named because they look as...

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Posted on Monday, May 28, 2012 at 7:03 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility (2), honey bees (2), James Nieh (1), Norman Gary (13), Susan Cobey (2), washboarding (1)

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