Bug Blog
Doesn't Get Any Better Than This
It was a gorgeous day to be out in an almond orchard. Staff research associate Billy Synk of the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, University of California, Davis was out tending the...
Billy Synk (left) shows Randall Cass a frame. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Beekeeper Billy Synk checks the productivity. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Checking out the bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of the Laidlaw research bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Seeking Undergraduate Research Scholars
Eager to experience a one-on-one training and mentorship that you'd normally find only in a small liberal arts college? Want to develop skills that will make your application to graduate school,...
Jay Rosenheim, professor of entomology at UC Davis, doing research in a meadow. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Temperature Fluctuations Affect Population Growth Rate of Dengue Mosquito
Exciting research today out of the University of California, Davis. The PLOS ONE journal published “Effects of Fluctuating Daily Temperatures at Critical Thermal Extremes on...
Dengue mosquito, Aedes aegypti. (Photo courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
The Spirit of the Hive
The Spirit of the Hive: The Mechanisms of Social Evolution. That's the title of a newly published book written by Robert E. Page Jr., one of the world's foremost honey bee geneticists. In his...
The queen and her court. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Queen cells. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bee-utiful Blossoms
If you haven't made it over to the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven on Bee Biology Road, UC Davis, yet this year, you should. The trees that form "Orchard Alley" are blooming. You'll see...
Honey bee foraging on plum blossoms. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Pollen-packing honey bee heading home. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)