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Billy Synk: Director of PAm's Pollination Programs
It's National Pollinator Week and there's exciting news on the horizon. Staff research associate Billy Synk of the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, University of California,...
Former UC Davis staff research associate/beekeeper Billy Synk, shown in the apiary of the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, has been named the director of Pollination Programs for Project Apis m. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
'P' is for People, Partners and Pollinators!
It's good to see all the focus on National Pollinator Week, as typified by UC Davis graduate student/native bee ecologist Margaret "Rei" Scampavia (at right) focusing on a male Valley carpenter...
It was a mix of pollinators and people at the Pollinator Pavilion during UC Davis Picnic Day. Graduate student Rei Scampavia provided the display in Briggs Hall. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Visitors at the Pollinator Pavilion, UC Davis Picnic Day, could could get up close and personal with the pollinators in a zipped enclosure. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This poster by Rei Scampavia showcases the many species of pollinators.
Our Bees Deserve The Best
This is National Pollinator Week and what better time to post some bee wisdom from Cooperative Extension apiculturist (now emeritus) Eric Mussen? Based in the UC Davis Department of Entomology and...
Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen (now emeritus, shows visitors the inside of a hive at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Extension apiculturist (now retired) Eric Mussen explains bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Inside the hive: the queen bee goes about laying eggs as worker bees tend to her needs and the needs of the colony. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Just inTime for Pollinator Week
Just in time for Pollinator Week. The wild bee research co-authored by 58 bee scientists and published today (June 16) in Nature Communications is drawing a lot of attention--and well it...
This macro image of a Ceratina bee is the work of Sam Droege of the bee inventory and monitoring program, the U.S. Geological Survey. This image is part of the public domain.
This is a female sweat bee, genus Lasioglossum, on a rock purslane. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, heads for a California golden poppy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Buzzing of the Bees
It's National Pollinator Week, and Ann Sievers couldn't be happier. She has her olive groves, her California olive oil company that mills what's praised as the "finest of the fine" artisan olive...
Ann Sievers stands by her bees, a new addition to IL Fiorello. This week is National Pollinator Week. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ann Sievers checks an olive tree. The apiary is in the background.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bees are thriving at IL Fiorello. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee foraging on a rose at the entrance to IL Fiorello. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)