Bug Blog
Not Everybody Loves Honey Bees
Not everybody loves honey bees. Indeed, about one percent of the population will go into anaphylactic shock if they're stung by a bee. That's a very small percentage--one percent--but it's huge if...
Honey bee foraging on rosemary. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Golden Moment
It was a golden moment.The honey bees that collected pollen from our nectarine trees today looked as if they were lugging gold nuggets left over from the California Gold Rush. Struggling with the...
Honey bee on nectarine blossom on Presidents' Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
With a head dusted in pollen, a honey bee works the blossoms. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Pollen-packing honey bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
And Life Goes On...
The tender shoots of fava bean blossoms are attracting scores of aphids, which suits the ladybugs just fine. Nothing like an all-you-can-eat aphid buffet. The site: the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee...
Ladybugs in the fava beans at the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Note the scores of aphids behind the ladybugs. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ladybug crawls past some aphids. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Everything Is Connected; Even the Bees
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe."--John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra Ecologist Louie Yang of the UC Davis Department of...
Honey bee heading for an almond blossom on Bee Biology Road at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee foraging in almond blossoms. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
How Honey Bees Make Collective Decisions
Like to know more about honey bees make collective decisions?Mark your calendar to attend a seminar this week at the University of California, Davis. Brian Johnson, assistant professor at the UC...
Brian Johnson in front of his bee observation hive. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Brian Johnson checks out a frame at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)