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Why Those Multi-Tasking Honey Bees Have Nothing on Amina Harris

A honey bee in flight, as she adjusts her pollen load and cleans her tongue or proboscis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

If you can't chew gum and walk at the same time, think about the multi-tasking honey bee. Have you...

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Posted on Wednesday, April 25, 2018 at 5:33 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Amina Harris (4), California Honey Festival (2), honey bee (192), multitasking (1), mustard (3), UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (1), UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center (2)

Focus Area Tags: Agriculture Food Natural Resources

Bee-hold: The Eye of a Honey Bee

Close-up of the eye of a honey bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bee-hold, the eye of a honey bee! Have you ever looked into the eye of a honey bee? Really...

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Posted on Monday, April 2, 2018 at 5:27 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: bee eye (1), branched hairs (1), honey bee (192), Honey Bee Hobbyist (1), Norm Gary (2), UC Davis (8)

Focus Area Tags: Environment Natural Resources

The Bee and The Ladybug

A honey bee and a lady beetle, aka lady bug, thrust deep inside a mustard blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A little drama in the mustard patch... A honey bee is foraging head-first in the mustard. She's...

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Posted on Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at 5:00 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: honey bee (192), lady beetle (2), ladybug (3), mustard (3)

Focus Area Tags: Food Natural Resources Yard & Garden

Surprise! A Little Brown Package in the UC Davis Arboretum

A praying mantis egg case or ootheca, clings to a Mexican grass tree, Dasylirion longissimum, in the UC Davis Arboreum. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Surprise! Surprise! You never know what you'll see when you're strolling through the 100-acre UC...

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Posted on Thursday, December 28, 2017 at 3:10 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Andrew Pfeifer (1), Dasylirion longissimum (1), honey bee (192), Mexican grass tree (1), ootheca (2), praying mantis (14), UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden (1)

Photobombing a Honey Bee

A cabbage white butterfly photobombs a honey bee on a bluebeard (Caryopteris x clandonensis). This image was taken in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Ready? Set? Go? The search party is almost ready to start. If you're lucky, you'll net the prize...

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Posted on Wednesday, December 27, 2017 at 6:00 AM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Art Shapiro (2), beer for a butterfly (1), bluebeard (1), cabbage white butterfly (1), honey bee (192), photobombing (1)

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