Backyard Orchard News
If Varroa Mites Are Bugging You...Coming Soon: UC Davis Course and WAS Presentation
If you're a beekeeper and varroa mites are bugging you--to the point whether you wonder if you're...
Varroa mites on drone pupae. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Susan Cobey: Part of WSU Team That Is 'Building a Better Bee'
"Girls, where's your mother?” It's August, 2007 and bee breeder-geneticist Susan Cobey,...
WSU bee breeder-geneticist Susan Cobey (far left) and California commercial queen bee breeder Jackie Park-Burris watch as Manuele Cantoni, Italian queen breeder, opens a hive. This photo was taken last summer in Bologna, Italy.
WSU bee breeder-geneticist Susan Cobey stands in the carnica apiary of Stane Plut in southern Slovenia. The caged nucs are bear-proof. Nucs, or nucleus colonies, are small honey bee colonies created from larger colonies.
A trailer of old, empty Slovenia bee hives is being used for yard art. This photo was taken in front of the house of Erik Luznar in Slovenia. The WSU team collected in his apiary. (Photo by Jackie Park-Burris)
UC Davis staff research associates in the Elina Lastro Niño lab recently enrolled in one of Susan Cobey's queen bee insemination workshops on Whidbey Island, Washington state. From left are Bernardo Niño, Susan Cobey and Charley Nye.
Fuller Rose Beetle Survey for Diversity
Dr. Andrea Sequiera from Wellesley College in Massachusetts is conducting a molecular...
Dr. Sequeira (left) and colleague
Larry Connor: How to Keep Your Bees Alive and Growing
How do you keep your bees alive and growing? That will be the topic of honey bee guru Lawrence...
Beekeeper and author Larry Connor is a frequent speaker on the bee conference circuit. This photo was taken in 2010 at the Western Apicultural Society's meeting in Healdsburg, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Beekeeper, book author and columnist Larry Connor addresses a crowd at the Western Apicultural Society meeting in 2010 in Healdsburg. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Why There's a Tree in the Bohart Museum of Entomology
There are nearly 8 million insect specimens in the Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of...
Hanging posters in preparation for the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on Aug. 27 are Steve Seybold lab associates Crystal Homicz (left), a UC Davis undergraduate student and research assistant, and entomologist Megan Siefker, a junior specialist in the Seybold lab, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. Siefker received her bachelor's degree in entomology in December, 2014 and Homicz is majoring in animal biology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A computer monitor at the Bohart Museum displays information about Western pine beetles. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)